Apprentices Quotes

They're the ones who are going to replace us in the next 10 years. If we don't start increasing apprenticeship numbers, we're going to be losing a lot of people to retirement. - Tom Shook

These cuts will bring devastation to the delivery of vocational courses, apprenticeships and adult learning, seriously undermining the government's skills agenda. - Mark Serwotka

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. - Dave Van Ronk

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. - Simone Weil

The Government should show some leadership on this and fundamentally overhaul the Industry Training Act so that competency based-apprentices become the norm rather than the exception. - Bruce Williams

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. - Russell Banks

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. - Samuel Smiles

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. - Anne Rice

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it. - Alan Shearer

Rather than a Student Regent coming in without experience, you have a one year apprenticeship. - Adam Rosenthal