Arts Graduates
Sir,—What a pity it is to see the State Services Commission apparently ready to take the view that the arts graduate is in some way inferior because he is not vocationally trained for any particular position. I had hoped that the commission would be sufficiently well acquainted with the work of the universities to appreciate the difference between an education and vocational training. The arts graduate gets the former. Whatever his particular discipline may be, he learns to think for himself, to exercise sound judgment, to take responsibility, and to discipline his own life and work. He gets a general intellectual training which prepares him admirably for executive positions in almost any type of business concern or any Government department I take comfort from the words of a senior man in the Department of External Affairs to whom I was speaking recently. He was quite obviously highly satisfied with the considerable number of arts graduates (many of them History majors) his department currently employs.— Yours, etc., G. W. O. WOODWARD. July 4, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32032, 5 July 1969, Page 12
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