Does Xiamen recruit professional oil painting apprentices?

There are oil painting villages in Haicang and Du Dong. Those painters paint oil paintings and sell them abroad. Of course, there are apprentices, but why did you become an oil painting apprentice? Painters generally use apprentices as workers, teaching little, and apprentices learn things slowly; Why not send him to a professional school? It is ok to accumulate experience as an apprentice, but a child of 16 years old, who came out as an apprentice so early, will not have any aura in his later paintings, but is just a painter.