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What does it mean?
Teaching domestic skills like baking does not support the growth of heavy industry or manufacturing.
In plain terms
Baking cakes is not how you build a strong industrial economy.
What can you take from it?
Industrial strength relies on technical and manufacturing skills.

Where it applies

  • vocational training
  • economic policy
  • curriculum design

Putting it to work

  • focus on technical trades
  • support manufacturing
  • value engineering

Questions to consider

  • What skills should schools prioritize?
  • How do we support industry?

Another view

Diverse skills including domestic ones have value in society.

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