Bob:

I am very happy you are not here mis-educating my kids. Notice that it
is not the lawyers who produce economic growth but is the technical
immigrants who do. Lawyers are necessary just as are convenience store
clerks but engineers actually cause the economy to grow. Left to
themselves, all lawyers would grow is mountains of paperwork.
I always learned very poorly from texts and very well from the real
world. A real world example where your life depends on it teaches far
more than any textbook.
Of course we will never see popular shows about scientists and
engineers because these people deal with abstract concepts that cannot
be easily shown on TV. Lawyers by nature are "people persons" whereas
scientists are oblivious to people. I am so bad with people that
someone at a cocktail party could introduce themselve to me and then 5
minutes later do it again under a different name and I would never know
it. I do well to recognize my own wife and kids.