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:
“One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)