In this article, the author discusses the issues concerning the academic-vocational education divide. The author observes how there remains an inequality in the courses that students take. Vocational courses still tend to be the domain of working-class students and students of color, and some of the courses exhibit the same limiting characteristics that the author has experienced in his day. The issues that concern the academic-vocational divide include the following: (1) Vocational education's narrow focus on job training and its separation of young people essentially by social class otherwise known as "social predestination"; (2) Gender stereotyping and racial segregation; (3) Matter of inequality; and (4) Intellectual limitations of vocational education. Finally, the author contends that in order to bridge the academic-vocational divide, people must challenge their assumptions about hand and brain and the rigid system of educational theory and method that emerged from them.