Vocational Technical Schools

Famous quotes containing the words vocational, technical and/or schools:

“I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

“In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)