On the other hand, a young male Quebecer just made $8 million playing poker! Is there a message here, even if it is a misguided one?
Compare the demands for jobs in the work force against the professional preferences/career choices of boys in schools as to "what they wish to be," and we have a very real problem. The need for office clerks and sales personnel is plentiful. Rock stars, elite athletes, physicians, lawyers, engineers, etc., are in lesser demand and require much greater innate talent, training or educational qualifications. Eventually, that contrast will lead to much dissatisfaction and disappointment - for both the male students and society.
Who can solve the problem? Why, the schools, of course. Now there's an opportunity for a real "reality show"!
Don, interesting post. However, I am surprised, given your background in education, that you didn't go further and explain what the schools could do about it.
ReplyDeleteIt would start with reforming university education faculties, graduating the best only when they are proven competent. The main objective now is keeping the numbers up so as to attract more applicants and maintain jobs.
ReplyDeleteNext would "reform" the unions which protect those incompetents as soon as they walk into the school to start work!