It's interesting to me because that's how I was taught by my parents and school. It was encouraged in school as well.
We're talking about the education component of teaching our children that this is something they can do. If parents aren't on board anyway, is that a successful way of trying to get children into the trades?
This kind of happened to me, except it was the reverse. My father was a power engineer and I ended up marrying a power engineer. If it wasn't for me going to school and taking classes.... I will agree that you need to be smart for math, physics, chemistry and all of that. You actually have to be able to...especially when you get into electrical or that kind of stuff.
How do we educate parents?