While working under a master isn't available to everyone, some schools are trying to give students more apprentice type experience.

I met a high school shop teacher who has his class buy, renovate, and sell a house each year. Students plan, use real tools, meet with building inspectors. It's a very real world experience and makes an indelible mark on a nearby neighborhood without committing everyone to a life in the trades.

The feedback I've heard about this class makes me wonder why more of the schooling experience isn't more like this.