WORK OR NO WORK?

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 4

WORK OR NO WORK?

"TRAINING FOR LEISURE"

The statement that about 23 per cent, of the children in our elementary schools will never have a chance of getting a job wais made by one of the speakers at a meeting of the Child Study London,Wv'hcn there was a discussion as to whether^ training for work or training for leisure was more relevant to present needs, says the "Manchester Guardian," The majority of school-leavers, he said, found employment, but when they lost it they had great difficulty in finding other jobs. In o.no town he knew there were seven hundred lads who had left 'school during-.,the ilast ten years, and tho chance! of their finding employment was remote.- '-~ ■ -'■- Mr. G. E.Launder claimed that education for work should be predominant in our schools today,1 that a proper share 6f practical work should be included' in the curriculum, and the pupils'.character should bo developed. Diy Norman Glaister contended that at this juncture it was much more important to train the-pupil 'for the great amount -of-leisure' he 'was'destined to have., y;Wprk had been upon primitive man by the necessity of providing himself with food and shelter and civilisation had produced the leisured; class,'whose necessities., and pleasureshad,>been provided by'the slave class';,; J Now; the human workers had been.;(rpp'laced; by mechanical slaves and there, neyef : would be. enough- work for ajl'. until itwas in a different /system.' '■'-. : ■-''..'■■' Sneaking of tho part played by adult education f '.in -fitting "people ' to enjoy their leisure, Dr*.-P. H. Spencer said that many people who took educational training during their adolescent years with tho Videa of improving themselves in their'work soon, becamo convinced that they would never- rise to the top of the tree. They felt .th'ey-had gone as far as they could:;; Then they began, to tako an interest- in literature, art, or politics—Especially politics. The difficulty of training people for leisure would not? bo solved by thinking consciously about leisure, but by thinking about people, by making them good human beings physically and giving them opportunties to exercise their minds to ,the full.

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