We have a strong system of higher education in the United States, which also has significant problems in need of reform. The most obvious problem we all see about college is its price tag. ‘College is the opposite of kidnapping. They demand $100,000 from you or else they’ll send your kid back!’  College gets lots of kids and families in debt and often graduates can’t find a job in what college prepared them for.  One of the promising ‘new’ solutions to this problem is apprenticeships. Like many ‘new’ solutions, in reality it’s been around forever.  I want to preach about the benefits of being an apprentice today, because it may not only improve our career education, but also our education as Armenian Christians. This topic also fits perfectly with today’s celebration of father’s day; because at the heart of apprenticeship is a fatherly relationship between elder and novice.