The author is not helping here with statements like "we have a class of vocationally trained workers with a sense of entitlement to be treated as an intellectual elite".
Vocationally-trained people want to be respected, just like everyone else. Making broad accusations about them, and insulting their abilities and qualifications, has been a significant source of conflict.
Every person deserves respect for their training and efforts, regardless of whether that is at a university, vocational school, dancing studio, acting class, on the farm, on a PC at home, or anywhere else in real life.
Start to respect other people, and they will start to respect you.
I feel like that comment is that there is a difference between vocational training and classical liberal arts. It isn't that one is better than the other. But when vocational training is packaged at a college as though it is pure intellectualism, there is a disconnect between what was accomplished and what was promised.
Vocationally-trained people want to be respected, just like everyone else. Making broad accusations about them, and insulting their abilities and qualifications, has been a significant source of conflict.
Every person deserves respect for their training and efforts, regardless of whether that is at a university, vocational school, dancing studio, acting class, on the farm, on a PC at home, or anywhere else in real life.
Start to respect other people, and they will start to respect you.