RE: Question 2: Integrating Career Preparation

In this regard, technical and technological education is more necessary today than ever. For most of our history, most technological innovation took place by citizen inventors, by farmers and workers improving the processes of production in which they were engaged. This is probably still the case, but it is expropriated by corporate sponsors and conglomerates. Remember that TV was a garage-laboratory invention, as was the personal computer to a great extent.

However, when we talk about work-force preparation, we also need to think about critical thinking, about ethical preparation -- look no farther than the impact of Enron on the state's budget for the reason why -- and also about collective action in the workplace to defend human and economic rights and freedom of speech and thought. Work-force preparation needs to have a space for learning about the history of trade unionism, for example.