Mike Rowe: Why Our Education & Economy Will Never Be the Same | Praise on TBN 

My daughter bought into the university lie. All that provided was depression and a debt she couldn’t pay off. She is happily welding and killing it!

I appreciate Mike's words, he's noticed for a long time where this country has been heading. America has been dependent on other countries to meet our needs , instead of our people stepping up and doing what needs to be done. Thanks to all the Laborers of our country.

Our local community college finally woke up and opened a new building devoted to the trades, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc. Two years later kids will be earning good money with little or no debt. This will be a big change from colleges turning out kids with worthless degrees and a pile of debt who are paying it down working as baristas at Starbucks. Now our left wing politicians want to forgive the college debt of those who made bad choices. Keep spreading the word Mike!

Mike Rowe has so much wisdom. I love the way he “politically correctly” called bullshit on how this pandemic has been handled.

As a woman who arranged life to work from home so that I could be with my kids and homeschool them for a time, I think the American home was the most overlooked and underused work space in history. Maybe many families will see the possibilities of educating their own children now with all the garbage going on in US public schools now. My son took your philosophies of practical trades to heart and we were able to foster his ability for practical trade work as well as reading philosophy for fun and other hallmarks of a well-educated man.

This man is a true role model. More young adults and teens should listen to him. Hell the parents of these teens and young adults need to listen to him. So humble. I wish this man would run for President of The United States. but regardless he speaks facts and for whatever reason no one wants to listen to him. so caring, so loving. i just wish more would open their minds and listen to this wonderful person.

Mike is as honest, commonsensical, and pragmatic as they come. But deep down as he carefully parses his words, there is something very telling in his delivery. It speaks inaudibly of what he really believes beyond what he reveals. He is a very wise man, and others equally as wise to pick up on the subtle undertones of his opinions.

My son, on February 1st 2021 took his life, he was 29yo. . It has been the most devastating thing I'm still going thru. We MUST do something to help these young kids. Suicide in most all cases can be prevented. God Bless.... Thank you Mike....

Technical Education advocate, intelligent, tv star, GENIUS ! LUV THIS GUY! He should run for President! ....

As Thomas Sowell and Jordan Petersen said...” i think its safe to say the blame is on the colleges and universities”

Mike is one of the most enlightened people I have ever heard speak. He is spot on, especially when he says "we are never going back to where we were"

Mike Rowe, always a voice of reason.

Sadly over 50% of the population in the US says yes they want to be safe regardless of the cost and are quite willing to pony up more freedoms. Not only their own by mine too which is what's so irritating.

Why does Mike always sound like he is the smartest guy in the room ? Because he is !!!!!

1) I can't believe I watched a TBN clip 2) Mike Rowe does not just have a great voice - He is also the voice of reason. I love that man dearly!

God’s still in control, no worries here.

Mr Rowe, please run for President of the USA. We need level headed folks like you in position to lead and change things.

Mike is the side stepping KING, tell it like it is Mike without having RU-vid pull the plug on this vid , Right on Mike keep up the good work.

Mike you're totally on with obesity and depression! Sometimes the fear of covid is worse than the actual virus. People need to move forward with caution!

Mr. Rowe's common sense approach to this "crisis" is inspiring. If only our leaders would listen to the science and common sense we would not be in this predicament.

Despite what people might think if this interview. Mike is spot on. Kids and people are paying full price for college while still staying home to get their education and not getting the learning experience. So that does mean the at home experience to them is just as good as actually being there. Education needs improvement no doubt about that. Just like when 911 happened in new York this covid post life america is going to change our future for everything. It's a shame to not be able to figure it out properly especially in 2021.

Mike Rowe is the man God bless mr. Rowe and the TBN family thank you for all you do and sharing Heavenly father's word with all of us viewers🙏✌🙏

A masterful job of avoiding questions and tyranny posing as health concern

Mike Rowe is so intelligent! Love his writings, his book, and all his insights!

** MIKE ROWE 2024** MAKE MIKE GREAT AGAIN

We still miss so much not being together at work. Hybrid for sure though. 2 days a week I’d love.

I always appreciate what Mike Rowe has to say ❤🇺🇸

There should be no Federal Dept. of Education.

Love Mike's thoughts... Thanks - Common sense --- not so common anymore... Reason has left the planet - Glad to see someone who still has - "not-so-common-sense" ...

Mike Rowe for President!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

All honestly why doesn’t Mike run for President he would get my vote. This is a man I would trust to actually fix this country’s problems.

It will be what you want it to be, make it happen your way. Always enjoy listening to Mike's voice.

The analogy is so close to perfection……well said Mike

It's not like a lot of us don't already know this. The purpose of using beautiful people to talk it out slowly and act as if we're discovering something here is to talk down the people who have believed the liars in positions of responsibility who have started our country on a death spiral (and perhaps also as a means of disarming the liars by shifting the truth into the spotlight of accepted reason). We're at the point where we have a person like Mike Rowe addressing this from a politically neutral and non-accusatory position because if we can't talk the dummies down then we go down too. Wise up, America.

Forget Secretary of Education, go for Pres! Mike Rowe 2024!! 😄👍

We will never be the “same”, until everyone begins facing and SPEAKING the FACTS about this FLU!!!

Mike Rowe for President - YES

Thanks Mike for being honest ,truth prevails....GOD BLESS.

Mike is pretty much the best.

Mike Rowe for President!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for showing GODLY BACKBONE with doing this interview.We sadly walked away from our church because of the indoctrination of Woke mind sets an the bulling that has swept threw the churches in Michigan. An now I am my husband seek out God's people on the Air waves an when I came across this it's made me run down the rabbit hole of your channel. Please Keep up information with God's hands guidance an I'll be drinking it up an sharing to others 💜💪🌹

Mike has come a long way since he used to do a Sunday AM real estate show in Baltimore!!

Mike Rowe should be president of the United States.

Mike 2024!

I'm disappointed he didn't say his first action as Sec Ed would be to get government out of education.

love you mike !

If we stopped testing people without symptoms this scamdemic would be over tomorrow. Our son was in his last two years at college locally and then they went to at home only at the same cost. He now is stuck waiting to go back because none of the classes he has left can be online. Is he supposed to sit at home for one more year, two more years, three? I am one step away from paying for him to go to trade school to become an electrician. It is cheaper and I can hire him to come work for me when I retire from medicine. I have my contractor license that I got before I went to college and it is still good. I plan to go back to making and installing kitchen cabinets and doing small remodel jobs because I like the work. Weird, I worked for years to get educated and I prefer to go back and do trade work.

Didn't care much for TBN, the two interviewing Mike I don't think have ever worked a hard day.

i ahave been a electrican for 40 years and never gone hungery and got my college degree in electrical engineering the trade has never let me down i got two boys....one out of U.T with a degree another out of Texas State a masters in nursing......all paid for on an electricans pay ...not to mention two homes one on 30 acres...and 6 various types if cars trucks and tractors and atvs so ware your 1000 dollar suits i will stay in my jeans making 150,000 a year. sure my hands are rough but they have provided a lot

Fantastic interview. Mike is the GOAT

This, Mike Rowe, is the man who should be POTUS; and I don’t mean the TBN guy.

Mike is absolutely right

Distance learning last year was a joke. Teachers, schools, students and parents had no idea how to do distance learning. Technology was not in place to do it. Parents were teachers more than teachers were but they still got the full salary. High school students told me they could do a week’s assignments in 4-5 hours. No one failed.

God Bless You Mike Rowe

Using the technology to work from home makes sense. Reduces energy usage and less stress to employees.

The Amish communities have acted like a living time capsule to see what our ancestors would have done with covid and how things would have turned out. They didn't lock down, they didn't wear masks, they didn't get vaccinated, they didn't social distance, they didn't close down churches and schools-- they didn't do any of the self destruction that the entire modern world engaged in. Yet their death rates were no different than any other state or country. In the end, death rates are all that matter. The Amish had herd immunity by May of 2020.

Mike Rowe for President

Mike Rowe for president!! :)

20 years from now, the school kids that could adapt and learn, getting an education thru the internet will be viewed as having some kinda unfair advantage over everybody else.

if they offered more trade schools back when i was looking for a career in highschool i think i would have done some things differently

Mike makes such considered and thoughtful comments. Well said

My husband's company said that they like people working from home. They're an IT company and if someone calls with a server problem the tech is more likely to spend 10-15 minutes fixing it in their office than driving all the way to the building or waiting until the next day.

I have said it before and I will say it again MIKE ROWE FOR PRESIDENT

Are we all ignoring that stunning table?!?! I'm surprised there's not a comment about it! But in seriously this was a good discussion, I enjoyed it. So glad our school didn't fall into the fear gap!!! Mask if you want to, don't if you don't, keep out of each other's face, disinfect touch points frequently, eat healthy, be kind, PRAY and TRUST GOD!!!

Thanks for the update, and thanks for sharing.

Spot on.

We have five generations of teachers in my family, and I sold video conferencing applications, including distance learning, when I worked at CenturyLink. Nothing replaces human interaction and face to face communication. Nothing. In college I often learned as much from my fellow classmates outside of the classroom as I did in the classroom. Get the elementary, middle school and high school students back in the classroom without masks and vaccine mandates. If they are sick, stay home. If they get COVID, quarantine. And get them outside exercising so they build up their immune system. Sunshine and fresh air are nature’s disinfectant.

FINALLY. MIKES BACK. !, ☝️👍😄

If those figures are correct and his math is correct I'm thinking why the heck are we still doing this?

Not only was the experience different in collegendurongnthenshutndown, but the material wasn't even all covered. My daughter experienced this in 2020. The colleges should have at least given them a discount. Although, anytime you take classes on line there was always an extra technology fee which made the classes more expensive.

No, we don't need daily testing. We need common sense and each family should assess their own risk aversion. This is not a governmental decision making process.

I really like Mike Rowe. I would rather hear him speaking through another outlet, though.

Big Mike ! Breaking it down for you

I never understood why some colleges and universities, if not all, could justify charging more to take an online class than they charge to take a seated class.

Rowe for president!

My idol

Love Mike! but a "small" correction, Harvard University's endowment is north of 40 billion, not 28.

What concerns me is the lack of physical contact in the trades industry. I’m Gen x and these kids today do not understand what getting out to the site and learning what is built with coordination.

God help us

Finally someone with intelligent insight .....

People don't want to take the responsibility of being on time for work at 8:00 AM But they will be on time for pay check time on Friday.

this was so well said! freaking word wizard!

Having seen the effects of suicide on a small community, the situation here stemmed from depression. The solution is the joy of the Lord. It’s harder to feel alone, when you have the Holy Spirit living within.

Two days a week in the office, three home. I drive a Honda Fit. $20 in gas can last me two to three weeks.

Rowe 2024

The affects of this pandemic on societies around the world have been really quite amazing and I doubt life will ever return to what it was. As Mike Rowe points out businesses have learned they can function without the number of employees and/or the number of employees working in the office. This in itself is a huge change in office space requirements, high speed data requirements at an employee's home, and of course unemployment. Just think about every one who learned to cook, and cook quite professionally, will this lead to less restaurants. And what about those people who took the advantage of the pandemic to learn a new skill leading to a new career. Yup, I doubt life will every return to what it was so just get used to change coming at you from every direction.

I graduated high school in 1982 and I really wanted to go to college!! Only problems I had though was, FIRST I had no clue at 18 years old what I wanted to do in my life!! And Secondly, I didn't have any money to go to college!! And just because my parents had more money than most, they were still a hard working blue collar family who worked for everything they owned and had!! So when I graduated from high school too, I had worked most of my summers off either working for a guy who owned his own construction/ contracting company, OR I would work other days for a guy who owned his own auto body repair shop!! AND while I was in school I had taken Wood Shop, Metal Shop and Print Shop for two years in junior high school, and at the high school level I took electronics, computer science, drafting, AND small engine repair!!! I also took two years of vocational Auto Mechanics as well, and I did well in science classes also though both Junior and Senior High School!! And for hobbies I was a boy scout, I build plastic scale models and I built and flew model rockets!! Basically I was pretty much over qualified for a lot of jobs out there!! And I even tried to apply at Burger King when I was in high school and the boss told me he could NOT hire me for the same reason!! And when I went to look into colleges, my only option was to work to earn money, because I just couldn't afford college, BUT THEN I took jobs that demanded I work 12 to 14 hour a day shifts, and usually paid me so low I still struggled to scratch a life out for myself!! And around 1984 is when I got my first temporary job......and I was then stuck in low pay jobs that would last a year or two or three, then lay me off until the new crappy job came along, that would hire me for 6 months or five years and again lay me off!! I never actually "got ahead" or was offered a "decent job with a good company" and worthwhile pay!! NOW I am 57 years old, disabled and literally have nothing to show for any work I have done!!! Every company I have worked for has gone out of business and I am still here wondering what happened to my life!! And I don't have a cent to my name, but I can still do things nobody else around me can do!!

Ain't that the truth brother !! 👍😎✊💯🦅⚔️🇺🇸🇨🇱

Mike Rowe for POTUS. MOST of us know this cough cough thing was all done by design.

Love your body of work…. Please interview David Jose and Josh Barnett. You will be with men of God and TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS.

Mike for president 2024

Logic and common sense shall prevail. But God , Our Father must be in our lives as he will be the basis of our common sense and logic. It's not that difficult.

I worked in a higher up college setting for the last 9 years and let me tell you it's interesting what goes on behind the scenes. No longer what it use to be, all about money and how can we get the most funding for x,y and z? Where can we increase fees for the students? It's beyond crazy! And you ever wonder why there is an increase of international students? All about money, they pay 100% tuition! College isn't for everyone guys, so take a break and figure things out before you get yourself buried in loans that won't help you financially!

Good talk Mike Rowe!

Man that is no one incredible house! That's my dream pad!

Very Well Said.

They knew what they were doing with the lockdown and such

When a company has its employees work from home the company doesn't want to pay rent. When the company doesn't pay rent the building owner can't pay all the trades that service the building monthly. Trades like elevator, fire alarm, sprinkler, Hvac, electricians, plumbers.

Dear Mike, the most important point about the Secretary of Career and Technical Education is that she has a philosophy degree. I wonder why there will continue to be a skills gap in the US. It fascinates me that no one questions the education of leadership in the DOE. Bob

Mike Rowe for Sec. of Education.. goddang, that's a good idea.