Word: apprenticeships
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...fraternities of the intellectuals, they must now find a way open themselves to the non-academic world. The academic profession is only one of many devoted to use of the mind, but this is hard to remember when every intelligent high-school graduate is expected to serve an academic apprenticeship by concentrating in a field and is immersed for four years in an-academic community...
...happy to learn that you will be entering the elementary apprenticeship program in September. Although mimeographed greetings are rarely adequate. I hope nonetheless to convey my pleasure in the knowledge that you will be with us. I know that these sentiments are shared by my colleagues in the elementary staff...
Ancient Practice. While most countries depend on vocational schools to train their workers. West Germany has the world's largest apprentice population (1,200,000). German industrialists think apprenticeship does the job better, while imbuing the apprentice with a respect for craftsmanship and loyalty to the employer...
Waring is the pseudonymous author of unusually bogus travel books, whose disappearance sets in motion an intricate clockwork of social comedy in prewar literary London. When this book was written (in 1938), Powell had just abandoned a novelist's apprenticeship as an employee of a London publisher. What's Become of Waring is thus a young man's gibe against his job. But the joke wears well, though its first U.S. publication is obviously based on Powell's present status as the author of The Music of Time, the series of books (six to date) that...
...book consists of ten autobiographical pieces that take Miller from his Brooklyn boyhood through his apprenticeship in a tailor's shop to the hard life of a literary bum in Paris. Bits are wonderfully done with vivid scenes of jazzed-up action, like an early silent movie full of custard pies, female underclothes and slightly zany captions...