Already, we’ve mobilized business leaders to train 10,000 American engineers a year, by providing company internships and training. Other businesses are covering tuition for workers who learn new skills at community colleges. And we’re going to make sure the next generation of manufacturing takes root not in China or Europe, but right here, in the United States of America. If we provide the right incentives and support – and if we make sure our trading partners play by the rules – we can be the ones to build everything from fuel-efficient cars to advanced biofuels to semiconductors that are sold all over the world. That’s how America can be number one again. That’s how America will be number one again.
Read this, they want to "train" engineers. You educate engineers not train them, and most never make it. They take courses, they compete for entry, they pass exams. You train dogs, not engineers. And we wonder what the problem is? Companies hire engineers, colleges and universities educate them.
If they have no clue about the people who build their economy, no clue of the leaders of China, then how in God's name will they ever understand how to get out of this mess.
Do we train lawyers? Possibly a bit, but when they are associates, after they have been educated.
I am taking a course at a community college. First I was denied admission because I was over 65, a law suit helped solve that. Then the course instructor takes attendance at each class, when yo leave. Now MIT never took any attendance and my secondary school never did either. You pass the tests you get through. I took courses and Regents exams in courses never taught. No one gave a peep. But the community college is akin to some reform school. So that is where we want to train these engineers.
It will only get worse before it gets better!
Does IIT in Mumbai or Tsing Hua in Beijing "train" its engineers, were Watson and Crick "trained" at Cambridge, was Einstein "trained" to come up with Relativity, the Photon Effect, Brownian Motion? It is not just misuse of words it is a gross misunderstanding of how things work. God forbid we start training people. They like the dog would then do just they are told. Or is that what they really meant!
In the old days, a "Training" School was a place to reform delinquents. Perhaps they want to have such a place. But wait, can we train a new Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Claude Shannon, well perhaps in their minds. I wonder what they think in China?
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