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...require seminary applicants to spend at least a preliminary year in a retreat house, deepening their spiritual calling and refreshing their knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Seminaries should also take more care in selecting the faculty who will instruct and guide new priests, the bishops proposed. And while on-the-job training in parishes became popular in the years after Vatican II, seminaries are now going back to the basics, with heavier emphasis on daily prayer and the study of theology, particularly the writings of the early church fathers...
...learn and running them through the system toward a meaningless diploma. Everybody has a right to education, but that right must be earned with effort and discipline. An alternative to the present chaos is to establish more and better trade schools and on-the-job training programs, as well as national civilian service...
...have heard the charges against my client. The prosecution argues that with malice aforethought he wrote a novel, Presumed Innocent, with the intent of willfully endangering the sleep habits and on-the-job efficiency of millions of innocent readers. Furthermore, it has been claimed that my client is remorseless. The government asserts that his new novel, The Burden of Proof, contains a plot even more fiendishly complicated and irresistible than its predecessor. The prosecution would have you believe that said novel, Exhibit B, constitutes an imminent threat to the public well-being and to the gross national product...
...Cooks are sometimes hired through ads in the local papers, but HUDS encourages Union employees in lower positions to become cooks through on-the-job training...
...On-the-job education has allowed some companies to tap the current wave of immigration -- the largest since World War I -- for skilled workers. Blue- collar employees at the Orange County, Calif., division of Unisys, for example, speak everything from Korean to Japanese to Spanish. Their productivity improved significantly, Unisys managers say, when the company began offering ten-week courses in reading, writing and speaking English. Classes, which number 15 students at most, meet in the company cafeteria, whose wraparound picture windows look out on the Santa Ana Mountains. "Before I took the class I couldn't stand...