apprentice

As an apprentice arms dealer, he proved to be a quick study.

"The wizard quickly raises his hand and smacks the apprentice on the side of his head.

You can apprentice, you can self-teach, you can dive in as a high risk newbie in an industry.

The wizard is old and frail, and the apprentice isn't physically hurt, but is shocked by what has happened.

This notion that you should spend the first 30 years of your life figuring out what you want to do is a pretty recent one. Nobody ever questioned a 14 year old blacksmith's apprentice.

I think it would be cool to try it at larger scale, with a whole team of skilled senior devs adopting apprentices to help them with their work.

I think it's careless to assume just because someone isn't tweeting their entire life or making huge waves, that they're not training the next apprentice.

Programming is a craft, and like many crafts it contains significant amounts of dogma passed from teacher to apprentice.

A doctorate is an apprenticeship in research, and the thesis produced is your "final test" as an apprentice.

The PI loses touch with the science, no longer fulfills their role as mentor to an apprentice and the quality of the work is a crapshoot - depending entirely on postdocs.

First because a true apprenticeship requires a contractual relationship between the apprentice and the master.

Probably there'd be a lot more opportunities for kids to do meaningful work/play, apprentice learning a trade, and less focusing on getting into a prestigious school.

My stepdad was a nuclear power electrician in the Navy, but when he got out he found out that he'd have to spend years as an apprentice to someone less qualified than him in order to be licensed.

In almost every art, it's a mentor-apprentice, tell-share-do-observe-create-influence paradigm, not passive absorption of technical details and performance-related tips.

Is our society really better on a macro level for the ease that teenagers have now?Additionally, schooling after a few years as an apprentice is extremely helpful in that you have a familiarity and context about the field and can instantly filter the busy work from the useful information.

Here's an amusing anecdote from early in the thread:========Whilst on the Concorde conversion course at Bristol, occasionally crews would have the privilege of meeting some of the original design engineers and draughtsmen who had worked on the Concorde project....Suffice to say that the senior fire officer who misread litres-per-minute as gallons-per-minute during an Olympus water ingestion test probably would not want any further publicity, likewise the apprentice who didn’t defrost the chicken before firing it into an engine running at full power in the bird ingestion test.