Trade School Quotes

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

I think that education works up to a certain point... I think unless I wanted to be like a nurse, or a doctor, or something that required that kind of knowledge, then education is fine. But I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I didn't see the point in spending seven more years of my life studying something.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

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

I never planned on being a plumber.

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

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.

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

College isn't necessary for everybody and it's only from what you put into it what you go there for.

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

It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.

If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

My mother hoped I'd be a plumber.

This could only happen in a technical college.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

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.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.