Wood, Metal, Auto shop and Home Economics should be taught.
Keep Art and make it more classical, and less "froo-froo" for kids who draw.
(all the ghey-ity made me run away from "art").
Mechanical drawing (Solidworks or Inventor or CAD) would be beneficial to any budding designer - as well.
Most college classes in Engineering were useful, but i didn't get the paper because i simply had no time for the electives. . I just needed the dynamics, trig and calc. and materials classes. After that and manufacturing stats at work, I was off and running. I met quite a few who took a similar path.
I would invent a Sourcing and Purchsing spare parts class as well.
Wood, Metal, Auto shop and Home Economics should be taught. Keep Art and make it more classical, and less "froo-froo" for kids who draw. (all the ghey-ity made me run away from "art"). Mechanical drawing (Solidworks or Inventor or CAD) would be beneficial to any budding designer - as well.
Most college classes in Engineering were useful, but i didn't get the paper because i simply had no time for the electives. . I just needed the dynamics, trig and calc. and materials classes. After that and manufacturing stats at work, I was off and running. I met quite a few who took a similar path.
I would invent a Sourcing and Purchsing spare parts class as well.
When I was in junior high, we were all required to take a semester of wood shop and technical drawing. We did not have home economics for some reason.
In high school, however, those courses were considered appropriate for the vo-tech program and not the college bound ones. Too bad.