Some of the best students of literature and history I ever met were electricians and plumbers in the daytime. Some of the best carpenters and electricians I ever met were lawyers, doctors, and accountants in the daytime.
For forty years, I've advocated that Millsaps could work with Hinds Community College to offer joint degrees. That way, your sons or daughters could get a degree in modern language and plumbing, history and carpentry, theater and cattle science. So far, precisely zero people have taken up my idea.
You spend four years in college. It costs a great amount of money. The best thing we can do for these young people is to help them create a framework they can hang their life on, recognizing that their brains go in many different directions, and sometimes what they're best at isn't what they're best at making money with.
Can you imagine how useful a person with a theater and carpentry degree or a theater and electrician's degree could be for theater artists?
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