Eugene Scalia Quotes

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

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

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

Knowledge-based apprenticeships kickstart careers. Just look at British fashion designer Karen Millen, for example, who learned her craft through an apprenticeship scheme.

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

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

The best job training is a job – any job.

We need to make sure we do more job retraining, and that's why we're working to have a 5-million-apprenticeship dream.

Here in Arkansas, we are preparing a generation of learners to meet the needs of businesses by equipping students with workforce training opportunities statewide.

Running a business and need more skilled workers? If you're not considering apprenticeships, then you're behind the curve.

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

Germany, Austria, Switzerland - they have vocational training that's aligned to the needs of business and don't have youth unemployment problems.

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

Re-skilling has to be much wider with a strong foundation.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.