Alan Ladd Quotes

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

I'm here to talk about Job Corps training—just Job Corps training.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

I learned how to do absolutely nothing - I didn't learn one thing in high school. If I had to get a job at the A&P, they had to teach me how to sweep.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

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

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

I have had no professional training.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

Not even a public figure. A man of no experience and of the utmost insignificance.

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

Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.