What's Missing From Manufacturing?

CNN.com's John Sutter looks at the role of vocational arts in American schools. He says shop class was once a vital part of high school education, but now it is largely absent. Jobs like building bridges and roads are seen as patriotic because they make their communities better, he says. But when you take art out of the vocation, all you're left with is the brute realities of the work, writes Sutter.