Recently we've been posting about the Bond Issue and in that context, the school district's plan to seek to ask the voters to help fund technical and vocational training at the high school level has come up.
Just prior to my noting that, I had an odd experience in which I woke up really early one morning and couldn't sleep, so I got up and turned on the television. Good Will Hunting, which I'd never seen, was on, and even though I missed the beginning of it, I started watching and watched it to the end. I must say it was a good film. Part of the theme, and the reason I'm noting this here, is that the film argued that the exceptionally mathematically gifted protagonist should pursue a mathmatical career (although he ends up purusing his love first). Indeed, in one major scence in the film his close friend argues that if he fails to do so and continues to work as a laberor, it would be a tragedy.
Well, would it?
I don't know. Its easy for me to note what the movie argued but not so easy for me to opine on it. I don't have laberor's job, and there's no doubt that most laborers do not get well paid. The film does make an argument, in the form of a scene, to the effect that all labor has dignitiy, but it goes on to essentailly endorse the very widely held concept that jobs that involve no physical labor and all intellect are more worthy of those that do not.
I don't know what to make of that, other than to note that it is an extremely widely held concept. But a person ought to be careful about simply accepting it. It's a very widely ingraned concept, however.
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