These are the fruits of engineers, who are honored for their work. Engineers strung telephone wires across mountains, carved highways through plains, and lifted rockets into the heavens. In China, engineers are esteemed. Rather than reform schools, inspire children, and restore dignity to technical vocations, they rely on borrowed talent. America must turn inward, honor its own children, restore dignity to its builders, and see engineering not as drudgery but as a noble calling.