Tutors not only help their students master difficult material, but also impart the skills necessary to succeed independently.
I was management tasked and poorly paid to get down among 'em and impart the skills of swing-blade, of scythe, of axe and hatchet, of shovel and "come-along".
Ditto the inability of many of their professors, imbued with academic culture, to impart the skills needed for success off campus.
Entrepreneurship education is widely being implemented in primary as well as secondary schools and institutes of higher education in order to impart the skills and the knowledge required for students of all ages to start-up their ventures.
For millions of today's young people, however, the first task of postsecondary education is to impart the skills, knowledge and habits of mind that our secondary schools neglected because they were consumed by the challenge of backfilling for grades K-8.
But apprenticeships allow manufacturers to impart the skills they need, molding new recruits into ideal employees while filling vital positions to keep up production.
If we are educating children in groups of 30 for years and years, when we could have imparted the skills better in small groups over a much shorter time, then aren't we wasting money and time?
This fall, the new M.B.A. curriculum at our school will confront head-on the need to better prepare students to operate in a fast-changing global economy by imparting the skills and tools to realign, redesign and reconfigure business operations for the 21st century.
The sequence first teaches the efficient usage of process simulation, followed by a formal process design course, and then rounds off by imparting the skills necessary to perform detailed equipment design.
This approach provides a sustainable, cheap and yet effective approach to imparting the skills necessary to implement the mhGAP guidelines for patient care.
I want to trust that the education on offer will impart the right skills to my future employees.
