The Importance Of Vocational Education

“In an academic sense we lost our hunger” (Friedman 357). Many kids are no longer interested in education, which especially is a problem in the flat world. Curiosity and passion seem to be missing in the minds of the younger generations. Some wonder why they can’t take a class at school that truly interests them, such as learning about the culinary arts or discovering emergency medical technician. Vocational education is a great option for those kids that feel lost in the shuffle of traditional education. At times, there are people that hear the words “vocational education” and a negative connotation enters their minds. Several people believe that vocational education is chiefly offered to dropouts, non-college bound students or students that have special needs. What a lot of people don’t realize is that vocational education can provide students the opportunity to be able to improve their …show more content…
Though, in today’s society that is flattening and becoming increasingly more reliable on technical/vocational skills, they are seemingly more and more important. For example, automobiles rely a lot upon advanced electronics and machinery than they did in the past and now they require an incredible amount of special training for the people who are involved in maintenance and repairs. Likewise, the process of manufacturing machinery has also become more complex, thus it requires a special vocational-type of training. For some other examples of progressively complex essentials of today’s lifestyle would include cellphones, laptops, music playing devices, as well as gaming systems. Vocational education offers the training that is necessary to maintain and repair the advancing elements of technology of the common lifestyle. It is further demonstrated by the proceeding comments from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural