While a firm may find it less costly to provide firm-specific skills that can be learned on the job without much interruption of the production process, teaching apprentices more general skills may be more costly.
One gets some sense of the technical side of things in "Autumn Journey," in scenes where Fischer-Dieskau teaches apprentice signers in master classes.
Even more entrenched is a workplace paradigm that has been dominant since the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, where guild masters taught journeymen who taught apprentices, all in the same shop.
Classes take place in the well-equipped studio on the floor below the gallery; the director, Kurt Huddleston, a ceramic artist, and other instructors teach apprentices to become potters and entrepreneurs.
Working craftsmen can't afford the time to teach apprentices, or the money to pay them; they wouldn't necessarily be able to sell what they make; and when they do become useful, maybe after two or three years, they'll set up in competition".
He notes that throughout history, so-called masters have taught apprentices, "but it's been two people or maybe a handful at most, and typically people who were chosen based on their social status or political connections".
Classroom instruction and on the job training teach apprentices the craft and trade of plumbing.
A magician is teaching an apprentice how to do a card trick — a trick so complicated and subtle that it will, when finally shown, be almost too subtle to enjoy.
"Abruzzo was quite poor, a closed society but people were farmers and had food and being a tailor was a good job," said Luciano Morelli, who began working at age 10 about 60 years ago and is now a master tailor in charge of teaching teenage apprentices at Brioni's tailoring school.
That's right, in the Rule of Two, the master must teach his apprentice everything he knows, until the understudy is so strong that he is able to assassinate his master.
