DEVELOPMENT OF TALENTS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 30007, 17 December 1962, Page 11

DEVELOPMENT OF TALENTS

Advice To School Pupils “This is your country—make the most of it. I do not mean get the most out of it: I mean give the most to it that you can,” Professor J. C. Garrett, professor in English at Canterbury University, told pupils of the Papanui High School at the school’s annual prizegiving ceremony. The working class, the people who had only their muscles to offer for wages, was shrinking. There was a much greater demand for skill, and more would have to think about higher education. “Don’t rush off to the nearest job when you leave school. It may support you at the time, but it may not later on,” Professor Garrett said. Those who had skills should develop them. Many planned their futures foolishly, and did not take advantage of what they had. Parents should bear some of the financial burdens when their children were developing skills. Otherwise there was nothing to stop a boy from giving up his apprenticeship for higher wages, which would look like a fortune—at the time. “If your child has talents which could be developed by university, I implore you to send him as a full-time student,” Professor Garrett said. Part-time study did not give the student the opportunity to show his real value.