VOCATIONAL SELECTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 8

VOCATIONAL SELECTION.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER'S EXPERIENCE. (To the Editor.) Professor Anderson's valuable contributi on this subject prompts me to pass on mv con elusions formed after observation of the result* of a certain degree of early vocational As lecturer in accountancy at Auckland tin versity College. I have coming under me stnH cnts in large numbers, some of whom hav«' taken the ordinary or "classical" secondary-' course, while others have taken the "cummer.'' cial" course. Sj»eaking generally. I fi n( j ♦jj-i' the best work in my technical subjects is dona by those whose education has hitherto been on' the non-vocational basis. The matter, as touch, ing accountancy, has l*ecn considered by th* 1 Educational Committee of the Xew Zealand' Society of Accountants, of which l«>dy I Ju v _! the honour to l>e president, and their" reoorn-i ■Herniations include the following: "We consider' that it is not the function of secondary schools to give commercial instruction. Such tuition as is given is too often not a good grounding but really needs to lie eliminated from the-, student's mind before he proceeds to further commercial study."' A- M. SEAMAN.