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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Good Cents, post: 4821536, member: 100720&quot;]A lot of skills and art forms that used to have a period of apprenticeship are being lost. There is hardly such a thing as an apprenticeship anymore, which is a pity. The closest things to apprenticeship nowadays is a kid dropping out of high school and getting himself hired out for super cheap to assist a private electrician or plumber or car mechanic or some other such independent contractor. Big companies won&#039;t take a kid to help out and learn like that because of the risk of being sued should something go wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then the colleges have supposedly supervised internships for a few months for young adults who are in college to learn on the job for 5-6 months. IMO 5-6 months is hardly enough time to learn a profession, but nobody asked me. And the college book learning is meaningless on a practical level until after a period of learning in an apprenticeship. The way it&#039;s being done now is backwards. </p><p><br /></p><p>It all goes back to being sued. If companies didn&#039;t have to worry so much about being sued, then kids and young adults could learn skills better.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then, of course, there&#039;s all the cheap labor overseas. But that&#039;s another discussion altogether. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the point is that a lot of skills and art forms are not being passed down anymore from one generation to the next. And our coins is just one of many examples. It&#039;s a pity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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