EDUCATION AND WORK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1689, 17 October 1887, Page 3

EDUCATION AND WORK

Many persons believe that under the ' present systems of education young people •re acquiring » distaste for manual labor, and that there is, consequently, danger that the trade and agricultural occupations will be deserted by all but the most inefficient classes of workmen. Much of the experience of English and American ■oolety Is m favor of this view, and the tendencies France appear to be m the tame direction. As an offset to what may be act m fsvor of It, the London " Spectator" directs attention to the fact that no dislike of work, even of the roughest character, has appeared among two of the beat educated racas. The Scotch, who have been taught for two huadred yean, and are now more thoroughly trained than English national cehool boys, show no disposition to avoid labor, but are remarkable for per■istent and fairly contented industry. The Prussian peasants, 'who are aa educated 1 sa the Fnglith will be twenty years benife, wort exceedingly hard/, and ip ihe country, where their holdings are tbelr own show none of the resentment at their fate whioh is manifested m tha towns m the form of Socialist asplra'lons. Gardeners, who all over Great Britain ars the beat instructed of manual laborers, work, mose ebpeclslly when working for themselves, with unusual diligence ; and It h matter of constant observation tLat • laborer who happens by any accident to be a ' bit of a sscholar'r r ' can be depended upon when work presses and every man ii required The people of Borne, who can read and write, are far more diligent than the Neapolitans, who cannot; and the beat workmen m Italy are those who bare paastd through the army, and so obtained what Is practically an education. Tills seemi to be no & priori reason why If should be otherwlgV Popular Selene* {gfonthli p,S,j|