Adaptability Needed
Advice to the modern sohoolboy to concentrate on the cultivation of adaptability to tackle a new job was given by the British Minister of Education, Mr. Oliver Stanley, in a recent address. When leaving school 40 years ago, he said, 'he position was clear. A job was waiting for the schoolboy, and in any case the world had vast undeveloped spaces in which one could live a happy and useful life. Nowadays they had to lace the competition of 500,000 secondary school pupils, and many of the old avenues were closed, reduced professions overcrowded, and open spaces tamed, regulated, and fenced with the straitjacket of modern economics.
All the old ideas, beliefs, and standards were being challenged, and at the worst being discarded because they were old, troublesome to live up to, and interfering with the right of selfexpression. What was it then that in the present-day world the, years at school could do for them? Economically, he believed that, the best.thing they could cultivate was not so much specific knowledge, specialisation, but an adaptability to tackle a new job
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 6
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182Adaptability Needed Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 98, 27 April 1937, Page 6
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