'The Mind at Work' Hand and Brain in School

In this Chapter, the author argued about the topic if the student should be vocational educated in their early age. Nowadays in high school, no matter in the US or in China, students should take a certain number of academic courses, regardless you like them or not. Some students may spend lots of time doing the work on specific subjuct, which they are not good at or not intersted in at all. More over, much of the knowledge they learned in high school may not be used in the future or are not related to their future career.
However, if the students choose be vocational educated, the voacational teachers emphasized job-specific skills to the almost complete exclusion of theoretical content. One result was that the intellectual development of vocational students tended to be limited at a relatively early age. What's more, most of the parents will not willing to allow their child to choose the vocational education in their early age, because it involed gender stereotyping. If the children learn specific working skills instead of getting the regular education, many people will think they are not hard working, they are not highly educated and they cannot make lots of money.
After reading this book, I think every career involves lots of intelligent in it. If you want to do it well, you have to spend lots of time on it-- learning the knowledge from the book, observation, practicing and summarizing. The book introduces the back information of some 'blue- collar' career, which I have never thought about before. I think if you want to do a work well, you have to be interested in it and pay lots of time and hard working.
There is an old saying in Chinese"There are 360 kinds of profession, there is a best in each one", which means to judge you are successful or not is not based on which career you choose, but its based on how well do have done in your career.