Apprenticeship Quote by Louis Menand

I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the…

— Louis Menand

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at…

— Earl Nightingale

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program…

— Alex Tabarrok

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just…

— Kevin Spacey

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens…

— Ian Mcewan

It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by…

— Louis Menand

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately…

— Claire Danes

“most professionals progress until they reach an “acceptable” level, and then they plateau. Software engineers, for instance, usually stop progressing somewhere around five years…

— Joseph Grenny

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could…

— John Updike

Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be…

— Robert Reich

Getting faculties to come to a consensus about something that they've never really thought about or had to worry about in their careers before…

— Louis Menand