How do we help students prepare to be ready to fill jobs and skilled trades and other areas?

If you had to recommend to Ohio's or anybody in the United States and beyond K-12 educators,

how can we help students be better prepared for the 21st century economy? What advice would

you have for those folks? Absolutely. First of all, I've got to rethink our K-12. We have to

understand that we are more a skills-based economy than a knowledge-based economy, but in order to,

you know, I think, utilize those skills correctly, we need to also be a creative or curious economy.

And we're losing a lot of the creativity and the curiosity, which fuels the skills that we need

as well. So I would break up the education today into a few things. One, I would have more curiosity

and creativity implemented in K-12. I would have skills direct that are related to the creativity

and curiosity. And then I would have better mentoring. And the mentoring would be utilized from either

middle school, college, etc. being able to teach teachers, teach mentors to work with the students

in either an after school or an extracurricular type of situation that allows them to mentor them

to apply their curiosity, their skills, and their knowledge that they learn to accelerate

the utilization of those skills. I don't think we teach enough skills, but I would more prefer

the curiosity and creativity over the skills training, especially at the younger ages.

But I think we need all of the above. Does that sound fair?