{"id":23361,"date":"2013-12-16T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23361"},"modified":"2013-12-16T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:04:19","slug":"reason-tv-dirty-jobs-mike-rowe-on-the-high-cost-of-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/reason-tv-dirty-jobs-mike-rowe-on-the-high-cost-of-college\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Reason.tv<\/em> &#8211; Dirty Jobs&#8217; Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qzKzu86Agg0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 13 Dec 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are lending money that ostensibly we don&#8217;t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don&#8217;t exist, I might suggest that we&#8217;ve gone around the bend a little bit,&#8221; says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel&#8217;s <em>Dirty Jobs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a real disconnect in the way that we educate <em>vis-a-vis<\/em> the opportunities that are available. You have &mdash; right now &mdash; about 3 million jobs that can&#8217;t be filled,&#8221; he says, talking about openings in traditional trades ranging from construction to welding to plumbing. &#8220;Jobs that typically parents&#8217; don&#8217;t sit down with their kids and say, &#8216;Look, if all goes well, this is what you are going to do.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rowe, who once sang for the Baltimore Opera and worked as an on-air pitchman for QVC, worries that traditional K-12 education demonizes blue-collar fields that pay well and are begging for workers while insisting that everyone get a college degree. He stresses that he&#8217;s &#8220;got nothing against college&#8221; but believes it&#8217;s a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Between Mike Rowe Foundation and Profoundly Disconnected, a venture between Rowe and the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Rowe is hoping both to help people find new careers and publicize what he calls &#8220;the diploma dilemma.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 13 Dec 2013 &#8220;If we are lending money that ostensibly we don&#8217;t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don&#8217;t exist, I might suggest that we&#8217;ve gone around the bend a little bit,&#8221; says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,79],"tags":[95,764],"class_list":["post-23361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","tag-jobs","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-64N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23362,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23361\/revisions\/23362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}