On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT), A Moose in Love
> wrote:

> I learned the basics in trade school. When I came out, I was ready
> for an apprenticeship. We learned enough in trade school to prepare
> us for learning in the real world. When you started an
> apprenticeship, the employer expected you to know what a sine bar was,
> how to sharpen tooling, rakes, angles, cutting speeds as related to
> material being machined, etc. However, it still took and takes years
> to make a machinist.

Community colleges also retrain workers and upgrade their skills.
Some is regular course work and some is contracted by the employer.

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