Vocational Education 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

  Real, Self Confidence, Unique

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

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Training, Needs, Done

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• At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Humanity, Different, Taught

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• Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Education, Men, Opportunity

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• It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

  Raymond Chandler

  Education, School, College

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.37, Grove Press

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• 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

  Jobs, Skills, Drug

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• If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

  Michael Gurian

  Boys, Needs, Want

  "Q&A: Michael Gurian says boys need societal nurturing, too". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weaving, Spinning, Regard

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the more material forms of engineering.
  We have laid good foundations for industrial prosperity, now we want to assure the happiness and growth of the workers through vocational education, vocational guidance, and wisely managed employment departments. A great field for industrial experimentation and statemanship is opening up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Engineering, Years

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• Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.

  George Packer

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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