CAREERS FOR BOYS

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3212, 4 August 1932, Page 2

CAREERS FOR BOYS

" There is' in all businesses, and particularly in large businesses, a variety of posts to be filled requiring various kinds and grades of capacity and suitable to boys and girls from different types of schools," said Mr Ramsbotiham, Parliamentary Secretary to the British Board of Education, in a recent speech. _ "An enlightened employer will classify his recruitment in accordance with the posts to be filled in his business. It should be his desire to ascertain what types of education are to be found in his locality, and the ability of the boys and girls that the schools produce. If he wants the best for his business, best not only in brains but in character, the school authorities will tell him who is the best. Nobody knows it better. " Teachers suffer from the separation of school from life, and business men suffer from the separation of life from school. Moreover, the knowledge that entry into commercial employment depended rather more upon the decision of the school and employer in join conference than upon family, or friendships, or any other chance influence, would stimulate a purposeful intensiveness in the prospective recruit. We are as yet very far from this position, and if employers at present complain that they get misfits from the schools, it is much more often their own fault than they are prone to imagine:"