Gerald Chertavian Quotes

I love learning new techniques.

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

State educators have confused the length of formal education with real-life skills.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.

Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'

The presence of a body of well-instructed men...is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

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

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.