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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3581628, member: 97383"]Many of your comments are so true <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. During the 1980s I taught Con Ed classes at three different locations for about five years on antiques & collectibles.  My largest classes were at the Gannet School at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, & averaged about 35 students per class. From a class size of 35 students possibly 3 people were under 40 years of age <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Too many young people have little or no interest in history, art, & numismatics. This phenomena isn't new, it started in the 1970s when good jobs were plentiful that didn't require a college education. Kids leaving high school could get factory jobs or trade jobs & live quite well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. As those factory jobs started going over-seas college became necessary & students focused on science & technologies, not art & history <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]