Far-reaching implications

11/01/1997

Far-reaching implications

Regarding your editorial ("Vocational education vs. the ivory tower," p. 16, August), I wanted to tell you: Right on! The points you make in that article are correct. Moreover, their implications reach farther than universities and semiconductor manufacturing.

The tendency to replace education with training has permeated the public school system, too. So-called "magnet schools" train students for their first $5/hour job, but leave them clueless on how find truth. This leaves our country in the hands of graduates who can run Excel and Word, but who cannot filter through political rhetoric so that they can make a good voting decision.

Scott R. Runnels

Southwest Research Institute

San Antonio, TX