VOCATIONAL SELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 6

VOCATIONAL SELECTION.

AN EXPERT S CONDEMNATION. ITO the editor..! Your word« of warning ajrain*t t'.o* danger To the country's educational "-vstem and. ijj. directly, to it- social and pohtj fa l ;<H-al n . ,j 0 not conic a moment too w<.n, n..re vonr criticisms cne whit oveidr.-un. j caS{ , those who priwlaim thai parents Mini teachers can l»etwecn them discern t lic 11 1" in• li{ c ' g work of a child a: Tin.- a an i limit hig educational opportunities aceoTdnie'.y i» clearly the familiar one of the wi>h licmir father to the thought. It would appear furtinr to embody some Mich pious b'-licf a» thai v,lienpviT man devise* a job the pood <.cxi send* baliie> in the required r- lit for that and nothing els;-. We are now c\pf-ricrejng hers the after cflectF of a which has FH'ept America within the last decade. jts COJ)> sequences you quote the verdict r <{ Professor Barley. In addition one mipht cite the vie-n-g of eminent psychologist- of --.j-'i diverse schools a» I'rofc-—' t !'• Watson and Professor Knight Dunlap. wj,.. have testified apainst the victimisation of '-•nctms. in n-ccnt uar« by "vocnt loiia] expert*.** d<-cpcr j]"ie i« si ruck by I'rofi—r Eltoa Mavo. who point- out that several >=vcliolopists who have taken u}» woik in "onneel ion with the treatment of apparent "mi.-fiu** ijj industrial and commejenJ !iie ha* • Ik'ch driv i n to the c-'iK ",u-ion that .jU'-*lions <,{ Mipposed sp-eial aptitudes ale -i completely overlaid by more pcneial problems of the f;tnes« to humanity of mo<:<-tn bu-m-s as to 'oe quite hojH-lesp of solution on th'-ir own a i-con nt. >. •e\ lure, snrelv .i~ a <-'li:atiou which caii only lie met hy tlie education of all concerned, that general cdueat i-.in of which theorists of the tv pe now befoic n' would disinherit a proportion of the couiHrr'g childhood. The devotees of s-hem"- like that now projected dub themselves psv eholopists but proceed throughout <n the ■ 1 -uinpi ion 13.; it human bcinps have no minds. 7 iiev "would frustrate ail choice, rcspon-ihi!itv a:i'i adventme in human life, and that .in the sola evidence of an abstract sv -i< m of ije.ib vliiclt is evidently supposed to form its oven proof. 1 lie one ceitam effect of sr.,], projects, is that of making work for tlie liiirfaucun-; helpin<? Cmcrnnnc: oiTir-ials to a cheap reputation for modernity. It is to lie hoped "Jim at the school committee elections this week candidal*'! will l>e returned who are prepare.! to insist on a careful scrutiny of all such unethical proposals, from however "Inch" a source the? may emanate J>t it Ik- remembered that thj' wajjes <.f jr.a'.ei iali-m is s-laverv. W. AN dm:SOX, ' Aii' kland I*iii. • r-i t v ( olh-pr.