James B. Clark Quotes

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career.

Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.

Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

Nobody thinks it necessary to make a law that only a strong-armed man shall be a blacksmith. Freedom and competition suffice to make blacksmiths strong-armed men

Behold the little State of Massachusetts, with more Institutions for industrial education than the entire South; let them see her textile schools, her schools of design, school of art, school of technology, manual-training institutes, trade schools, polytechnic institutes, schools of applied science and institutes of technology; let them see industrial departments in all her city high schools

The issue is not the length of your resume but the strength of your vision.

Because of the Constitution, there are no qualifications for our jobs.

The job requires skills.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

I want to make it clear, I'm not whining, and the Celtics owe me nothing. But having said that, you would think at least I would have a conversation about a coaching job, since that's what I want to do.

In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.

Most people, when they hire you, they want some experience on the resume.