No we don't. Not in the sense that you do in Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia, etc. That is our loss, too. We rely overly heavily on college degrees, book study, and theoretical training, with only very limited hands on training and learning, and perhaps an internship during the summer between a student's junior and senior years in college or university.
Thank goodness for our technical schools! The have kept manual training alive in this country. The are certainly no replacement for a solid apprenticeship, and that has a tendency to show in the manual arts skills of our new employees over the first 5 years f their selected trades. Yu can also easily tell those students who parents were tradesmen, or even owned and operated their own trade business. Wood workers, Carpenters, plumbers, craftsmen of all types who were raised in the environments of their selected trades are head and shoulders far more superior in the execution of that trade, especially during the first 5 or 6 years of employment.
Apprenticeships in America ( while still available on an extremely limited basis) have gone by the wayside, and not for the betterment of the country, either.
