YOUNG MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 102, 30 April 1913, Page 9

YOUNG MEN.

DEARTH IX TEACHING CBy Telejrspli.—Own Correspondent.) WELLIXGTOX, tli is day. "Why is it." asked a well-known Wellington headmaster of his ? cliool committee, '"that there is such a dearth of male applicants tor the service? Although a considerable number of the best girl pupils of this school have adopted the teaching pro c cs-sion. there is not a single example of a boy having done so during I the years of my experience in this school.' , Hf was speaking of Clyde Quay, one of the largest city schools.! He went on to siv that he \va~ not: blind to the fact that some of this shy- i res 6on the part of males w;is the result of reluctance to face the years of neces- j sary study nnd training to tit them for j tho work, years during which they hail ; to be dependent on their pircnts for ;> considerable portion of tiieir support. , There was not a simil-.ir shyness, however, where law and other professions arc concrnieil. Indeed a good many ot the more promising and ambitious men in the teaching profession only made it a stepping-stone l ° other professions, •because iv them they could satisfy their ambition, and in the teaching profession they could not. "If teaching is the noble profession we are so constantly having it dinned into our earn that it i--' , hu concluded, "then it is worth paying for. "We slmll never succeed in atu acting to and keeping in the profession the nest of our young people until the public o! the Dominion grasp this elementary truth.' .

The committee endorsed these viewe in resolutions culling lor improved scales of payment.