Seen from the perspective of my own education that is a very strange thing to say. Did you never learn anything practical at school or university? My own education was full of things that I have used all my life in my career as an engineer.
You are going to be very surprised when you find out that all your “practical” skills are nothing but the distillation of decades of research and applied science, most of it done at schools and universities.
Imagine how much better off our society would be if every adult was grounded in the fundamentals of political science, ethics, economics, and philosophy.
An educated electorate demands higher quality candidates. The populist demagogues of the last several decades wouldn't have stood a chance.
Oh man, I couldn't disagree more. Learning is learning. My education was broad in a few ways, and so many of the thing I learned that were seemingly unrelated to technical skills have made me a better engineer in many ways.
Some young people aren't sure what they want to do with life and school is a reasonable place to figure that out and hopefully pick up some practical skills/networking/life experience along the way.
