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I think your points are fair. However, I see lots of practical coursework at even purely liberal arts school. Architecture, accounting, chemistry, etc. all have direct and practical learnings.
Why not just try to inject a little tech and software thinking into the economics, marketing, sales-oriented, and management classes taught both undergraduate and graduate.
And why not teach code, as a way of learning to learn, in middle and high schools?
Regarding education at the high school and middle school level, I never had required programming courses, but we did have a Pascal course in middle school, and in high school we were offered (and I took) C++ computer programming courses at the Honors and AP level. This was at a public school, and I don't see why that can't happen at more schools.
I think introducing some type of programming into the college level for ALL majors would be valuable. I don't know if you need to inject that directly into the curriculum, maybe a series of "Development For Dummies" clubs taught/marketed by young CS and Engineering students could help bridge the gap. Maybe in exchange those students could run clubs that might open CS/Engineering students to more than analytical thinking as well.
One big problem. No one that is a capable enough developer to teach computer science is going to be teaching at a high school. And more pay isn't an answer, the problem is bureaucracy and endemic stupidity in the institutional structure of public primary and secondary education.
I think it depends. My teacher for the AP class was a former student/MIT graduate and was starting his own business. This was as exception from the norm, but it's possible!
Maybe having teachers that teach single classes on a volunteer basis?
I'm a big believer in self-study and self-training. Meetups, books, on-line study - I've personally done it all.
With that said, schooling at all levels, even when liber arts and fundamental, prepares people for the world they will work in. At the most basic level, writing and math prepare students for the workforce.
I'm simply arguing that we swap out a lot of industrial and unnecessary coursework (i.e. Latin) for technical thinking, examples, and coursework.
Jorge this is a fair point. However, over time I have to believe that the shift to post-industrial will create more jobs. You're right that this doesn't absorb anything close to 10% in the short or medium term.
Also, I wasn't arguing in my post that this was a solution to 10%; just that in my world and sector there's lots of jobs despite this big unemployment number. And we need more technical literacy (not just programming skills as some commenters have misinterpreted) throughout our education system.
For example, every business class I took as recently as 2003 involved products in boxes and shipping.
Right. It would have nothing to do with the tangible increase in labor and materials: electricity, space, more grounds-per-oz of coffee.
Come on, really? Yes the price is dependent on what people are willing to pay, but there is a very real and legitimate reason for the drink to cost more.
Umm, yes? A lot of coffeeshops will charge say 1.50 for an Americano, but 50 cents for an additional shot of espresso in a normal coffee. The only explanation is: That's what the market will bear.
