I agree with communication being a vital skill - visual arts, songwriting and storytelling will always have a value for any vocation. I also think we undervalue curiosity. Kids and adults should always be searching and wondering and exploring the "why's" in the universe. Life is an endless adventure full of discoveries.
I think you're on the right track with urging your kids to learn communication skills. More than anything mine have served me no matter what I do and have done, work-wise or just in trying to be a decent human. But I never went to kollidge so what do I know.
I'm not one to tell people what they should urge their children to do, but I think what Richard points out is all too often overlooked. In the past few months we have really learned which people are essential and which are not, and I think we need to recognize that and treat some of these "unskilled" jobs with more respect. In my old job I learned quickly that being able to back up a database was pretty meaningless outside of a specific part of a specific task and I realized I didn't care about it.
My biggest gripe whenever people start talking about "the future" is the assumption that everything is going to evolve digitally and technologically down some predetermined path that was established twenty years or more ago. I'm not convinced our civilization will really exist in any way we imagined it to here in the next ten to twenty years. Where is all this energy going to come from? Where is the waste going to go? How are we going to live on an overheated and overtaxed planet? Not only that, but we see all over Montana that the people whose efforts really make the system work can't afford to live here anymore. That's not going to sustain this technological dreamscape either. Grr. It gets very frustrating to me. If we want to step forward, it seems we really need to take a bunch of steps back and rework a bunch of stuff.
Security seems to be what we all want but all lack. Perhaps your kids need to learn the manual skills that can allow them to survive and thrive on their own, without formal education. A few skills wouldn't hurt.
My sister, a lawyer, once told me that she wished everyone could experience law-school not to become lawyers but how to become better thinkers.
I agree with communication being a vital skill - visual arts, songwriting and storytelling will always have a value for any vocation. I also think we undervalue curiosity. Kids and adults should always be searching and wondering and exploring the "why's" in the universe. Life is an endless adventure full of discoveries.
I think you're on the right track with urging your kids to learn communication skills. More than anything mine have served me no matter what I do and have done, work-wise or just in trying to be a decent human. But I never went to kollidge so what do I know.
I'm not one to tell people what they should urge their children to do, but I think what Richard points out is all too often overlooked. In the past few months we have really learned which people are essential and which are not, and I think we need to recognize that and treat some of these "unskilled" jobs with more respect. In my old job I learned quickly that being able to back up a database was pretty meaningless outside of a specific part of a specific task and I realized I didn't care about it.
My biggest gripe whenever people start talking about "the future" is the assumption that everything is going to evolve digitally and technologically down some predetermined path that was established twenty years or more ago. I'm not convinced our civilization will really exist in any way we imagined it to here in the next ten to twenty years. Where is all this energy going to come from? Where is the waste going to go? How are we going to live on an overheated and overtaxed planet? Not only that, but we see all over Montana that the people whose efforts really make the system work can't afford to live here anymore. That's not going to sustain this technological dreamscape either. Grr. It gets very frustrating to me. If we want to step forward, it seems we really need to take a bunch of steps back and rework a bunch of stuff.
Sounds like TED school.
Security seems to be what we all want but all lack. Perhaps your kids need to learn the manual skills that can allow them to survive and thrive on their own, without formal education. A few skills wouldn't hurt.