Eventually, participants were divided into teams and tasked with using their new skills to prepare a presentation to sell a manifestly bad idea.
Was Saint-Saens taking a poke at Gounod's "Faust" in the monologue where Kornelis uses his doctorly skills to prepare a hallucinogenic potion that enhances his spell?
Mr. Shorris, who died in May, rejected the notion that the poor should focus on learning practical skills to prepare for mostly low-paying jobs.
That law calls for evaluations to make sure that the approximately 900,000 children in Head Start can identify 10 or more letters, that they are developing language skills and that they are gaining other skills to prepare for elementary school.
The United States Army is pressing into place sweeping changes in its basic training program, introducing rigorous new drills and intensive work on combat skills to prepare recruits for immediate missions to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Soon, she had created works for the Joffrey and Kansas City Ballets as she honed her skills to prepare for the time when her body, like every dancer's, would fail her and her attention would shift elsewhere.
"We have already supported over 250 staff from one large employer whose distribution staff were made redundant," says Esan. "We have retrained them with new skills to prepare them for the changing employment market.
Jean has put what she learnt about the British system into workshops in UK culture and seminars on interview and presentation skills to prepare graduating Chinese students for competing with their British peers on assessment days.
As part of an eight-week program with the Manhattan-based nonprofit group, Ms. Geist and 19 other high school girls learned software programming, public speaking, product development and other skills to prepare them for jobs in the technology industry.
"Spring break could always be a time to think about summer jobs, but they'd rather think about the beach," said Alma Dell Smith, a clinical psychologist in Boston who is helping her 19-year-old son, Logan, polish his skills to prepare a résumé.
