Education
Education can be received in a variety of manners, and is acknowledged through various means. Below is a sampling of educational conventions. (According to Greenspan, math skill more than anything else is required to achieve skilled-job status and is the one skill too many high school grads lack ).
- On-the-job training - (Examples: cashier, fashion model, farmhand, office clerk)
- Apprenticeship - (Examples: carpenter, electrician, mason, mechanic, plumber, welder)
- Vocational certification - (Examples: chef, cosmetologist, dental assistant, paralegal)
- Associate Degree - (Examples: commercial artist, draftsman, licensed practical nurse)
- Undergraduate Degree - (Examples: accountant, teacher, registered nurse, software developer)
- Professional Degree - (Examples: architect, dentist, engineer, lawyer, medical doctor)
- Graduate Degree - (Examples: astronaut, mathematician, nurse practitioner, scientist, university professor)
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God’s Will.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)