I think there was a real movement away from thinking that working with your hands had value. We really saw it in earlier education, in primary school and secondary school. There was an emphasis away from hands-on training and trying to connect the people who learn with their hands and those who learn by doing with those opportunities. That also undermined apprenticeship as a post-secondary pathway because we weren't giving people access anymore.
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