Children today are expected to go to school and get a well rounded education. They don’t start specializing as apprentice to some master at an early age
While working under a master isn't available to everyone, some schools are trying to give students more apprentice type experience.
I met a high school shop teacher who has his class buy, renovate, and sell a house each year. Students plan, use real tools, meet with building inspectors. It's a very real world experience and makes an indelible mark on a nearby neighborhood without committing everyone to a life in the trades.
The feedback I've heard about this class makes me wonder why more of the schooling experience isn't more like this.
Rather ironic when you consider that Michelangelo, along with many of his contemporaries of the era, are precisely where the term 'Renaissance man' comes from.
