Word: apprenticeships
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...professors reward those who precociously emulate them in the use of the honed-down tools of some over-defined discipline. This is a perversion of the liberal education, conceived to be somehow different from a professional apprenticeship...
That refusal takes place in adolescence, which like childhood is a modern development. Thus the family has had no long historical experience in dealing with the new rebelliousness. Unlike youths of the pre-industrial age, who simply entered some form of apprenticeship for the adult world at the age of puberty, millions of teen-agers now remain outside the labor force to go to college. It is this fact that has made possible the existence of today's separate youth culture, by which parents feel surrounded and threatened in their sense of authority. "A stage of life that barely existed...
...want, who desire, who long. And I come for those who want sympathy, who want happiness in all things. I come to reform not to tear down. I come not to destroy but to build." Theosophists took the dramatic change in person to signal the end of Krishnamurti's apprenticeship and the beginning of the fullness of his glory...
...apprentices' advancement is overseen by a labor-management committee established this year. The maximum time spent in apprenticeship is four years (three for painters and roofers), with apprentices normally advancing one grade every six months...
Wiggins evaded the issue of the dismissal of two B and G workers- Reggie Smith and Poochie Evans, the only black applicant to the new B and G apprenticeship program- for absenteeism...