By Mike Cheney, AME Program Director
In the 250 years since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, when the fragmenting of the family into individual units of labor began in earnest, the concepts of apprenticeship and mentorship have largely disappeared from the American culture.
The common practice of children being trained up for their lives’ work by parents, relatives and like-minded friends has been replaced by another sort of vocational orientation which might or might not teach the basic skills of the job but which severely lacks the training in wisdom and knowledge of the foundational type, the wisdom of God.
