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...private schools, so he champions school choice and vouchers, detests the national teachers' union (which he dubs the "Neanderthal" Education Association) and rejects as an unwarranted intrusion the once bipartisan movement for national learning standards that culminated in President Clinton's Goals 2000 initiative. Forbes had a very special apprenticeship program courtesy of Dad, so no wonder he believes "you don't need government to provide skills training. With a vibrant economy, which my economic policies would create, people can do it themselves and will have an incentive to do so because opportunity will flourish." Without specifics, he says...
...successful recruitment policy must establish teacher apprenticeship programs within the high school, work with area colleges, provide scholarships and guarantee teaching positions for qualified applicants, he said...
...like to use the apprenticeship program,"he says. "It all starts off with contour drawing--just lines. Then the artistic expression begins...
...poet, he had the advantage of seeming never to have had to serve an apprenticeship. There would be something almost chilling, if it weren't so cheering, about the ease with which, at 20, he negotiated the considerable challenges of rhyme and meter he set for himself. Of course he belonged to a generation of surpassing formal accomplishment. That fertile decade of his birth-the 1920s-also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet...
...went through a rather strenuous apprenticeship," recalls Berman, a workaholic with few outside interests other than his wife Elizabeth and their three children. "I learned what was Star Trek and what wasn't. I learned all the nomenclature, all the rules and regulations. I learned the difference between shields and deflectors -- that was a day right there. Slowly, Gene began to trust my judgment and also to trust that I would adhere to the rules, that I would not be someone who would want to change Star Trek...