SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2768, 28 August 1931, Page 5

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

REPLY TO CHARGES. — A reply to charges that the secondary school system of New Zealand tended to produce an undue proportion of young men for the professions was made by the honorary secretary of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Association (Mr F. Martyn Renner), who waited on the Prime Minister recently. “Our critics declare we still supply the cuff and collar brigade, contemptuously so-called,” he said. “Figures dealing with boys leaving our secondary schools are. as follows: —- Three per cent, entered the University, 4 per cent, the teaching profession, 8 per cent, the Government service, 5 per cent/ banks and insurances, 2 per cent, law, 13 per cent, commercial, 4 per cent, engineering, 12 per cent, trade, 14 per cent, shops and warehouses, 19 per cent, farming. The figures show that 22 per cent, of our' pupjls entered the so-called professions, while 62 per cent, entered into trades, shops, farms, and commercial houses. From our technical schools 6 per cent, of the pupils entered the professional ranks, ai d 75 per. cent, entered the remaining spheres of life.”