Vocational Training Quotes:

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.

- Conrad Burns

topic: Real, Self Confidence, Unique, Unique Gifts, Gifts And Talents

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

- Bobby Scott

topic: Jobs, Skills, Drug, Vocational Education, Drug Abuse

Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.

- Lewis E. Lawes

topic: Children, Giving, Training, Vocational Training

Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.490, Best Books on

topic: Science, Numbers, Giving, Human Knowledge, Vocational Training

The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

- M. M. Pallam Raju

topic: Training, Needs, Done, Vocational Education, Vocational Training

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

- John Dewey

topic: Animal, Men, Training, Liberal Education, Vocational Training

I believe that there should be transparency in pricing, that schools should provide information on what majors translate to what salary outcomes, and that vocational training and technical schools should be a larger part of our education portfolio.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Believe, School, Training, Pricing, Vocational Training

At the moment I would like to emphasize the need for vocational training, for non-formal education in Burma to help all those young people who have suffered from a bad education. They have to be trained to earn their living. They have to have enough education vocational training to be able to set up respectable lives for themselves.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

source: Source: www.voanews.com

topic: People, Training, Needs, Formal Education, Vocational Training

Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.

- Gillian Anderson

topic: Girl, School, Boys, Vocational Training, Hot Topic

The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

- Neil Postman

source: Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.32, Vintage

topic: People, Training, Study, Humanistic, Vocational Training

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

- Alan Kay

source: ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

topic: Training, Degrees, Java, Undergraduate, Vocational Training

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Educational, Struggle, Taken, Passing A Test, Educational System