I would say we've made it so that we say to our kids, “You can be anything,” but “anything” is too broad. There's not a sense of what that means. What do I need to be doing today that prepares me for anything? I do think that it's important to say to kids when they're young, “Science prepares you for all of these opportunities. Engineering prepares you for the trades. This is what math is good for.” It's not enough to sit somebody at a desk and give them formulas to learn. They need to know why they would want to know that and how it might be applied.
I don't think we give enough of that. Quite frankly, guidance counsellors don't have a lot of time in the course of a day to provide guidance about career opportunities. They're worried about a student who is in a situation where, I hate the teacher, I'm not showing up. They're dealing with problems. They're not dealing with the kids who have any opportunity available to them to give them good information.