Ted Dintersmith

We didn't do it.

And the video production quality is terrible.

But a guy named Woody Flowers, I don't know if you met Woody, but he co-founded First Robotics with Dean Kamen.

And he taught at MIT for 45 years and became convinced.

I have to say this slowly because people don't believe me.

Woody became convinced that MIT graduates had learned very little science and engineering.

And to make his point, graduation day, caps and gowns, world's most prestigious engineering institution in the world.

We're proud graduates.

They go up to all these grads and they hand them a light bulb wire and battery and say, can you light up the light bulb?

And these kids are like, of course.

Like, wait a minute.

Why are you bothering me with something so pedestrian on this big day?

And then they can't light up the light bulb.

And the point I make is, had those kids along the way shadowed an electrician or done a summer internship with an electrician, they'd be way better MIT engineering students.

And other kids might go on to be electricians that do incredibly important work to hold their community together.

And everybody else would at least know when the power goes out at their house.

Here's what we do about it, right?

And so that sense of career...

over there, get on a bus, you're stigmatized, this is your consolation prize.

College, yes, bingo, you did it.