Jimmy Iovine Quotes

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I was never trained for anything.

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

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

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

Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

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.

Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

Behold the little State of Massachusetts, with more Institutions for industrial education than the entire South; let them see her textile schools, her schools of design, school of art, school of technology, manual-training institutes, trade schools, polytechnic institutes, schools of applied science and institutes of technology; let them see industrial departments in all her city high schools

In our high-tech economy, preparation for earning a good living is more readily secured by those who can read, write, speak, and figure well and who have learned how to think critically and reflectively, rather than by those given specialized job training.

Learning Before Earning

The real question is “What can we do to improve the earnings of lower- and middle-income Americans?” That’s about increased education and skills training, and that may require higher government spending.

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

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.