Points for/against the claim that skilled worker deserves as much recognition in society as the academically educated.
Society needs practical skills to support academic ideas
• Plumbers, carpenters, construction workers are essential for today’s society
• Care workers, porters are as essential as doctors and nurses
• May take as long to train a skilled worker as an academic
• Surgeons and lawyers spend many years studying
• Ideas are needed to help society to progress
• Pay differentials needed or not?