UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
TRAINING FOR BUSINESS. SYSTEM DEEMED FUTILE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct. 28. "For a business career, university training is an absolute waste of time," asserts Mr. W. B. Morris, the well-known motorcar manufacturer. "Although there are exceptions," he says, "I have never found a university trainee of any use in ray organisation. A university does not confer upon a student the qualities which are essential in commerce, but it obliterates them if they have originally been present. It does not give an understanding of the worker's psychology, which is essential to the carrying on of a large-scale business.
"I started life in an engineering shop and therefore I know what the workers think. Nobody can succeed without that understanding. University men absorb the idea that life is an easy thing, and they pay too much attention to sport and pleasure "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 11
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