Daniel Greenberg Quotes

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

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

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

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

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

I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

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.

If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.

The only thing you can do is have "job training" for people for the new jobs that we're gonna create after the job you have leaves for Mexico. Job training? Are you kidding? That's what schools are! That's the never-ending promise of liberalism.

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 might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

Who's going to be against getting workers the skills they need to be successful?

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.