Vocational Training

 In Modes of Being by Paul Weiss, section 2.90, "Education should include training, the mastery of techniques", the argument includes

Because vocational training has so often been assigned to those in economically or socially disfavored classes, and because it has been taught in almost complete abstraction from other phases of education, advocacy of vocational training has encountered opposition by the partisans of an exclusively liberal educational program. Their program in effect amounts to the vocational training of intellectuals, of teachers and college presidents, of discussion leaders and journalists, a fact obscured by the the low degree of success their pupils have had. Both they and their opponents are agreed that vocational and liberal education are antithetical in procedure and objective. This need not be the case. Vocational education need not be narrow, directed towards the preparation of young men to perform menial, servile work in later life.

One does occasionally forget the roots of liberal education in the training of clergy, lawyers, physicians, eventually civil servants.