GREAT EXPECTATIONS
CHILDREN AND CAREERS.
The dreams of great careers of school children are illustrated by an inquiry by the New Zealand Education Deparment into the occupational ambitions of some eight or nine thousand students at secondary schools. Of 559 sons of labourers covered by the inquiry only three contemplated following in father’s footsteps. There were sox sons of architects, 18 sons of chemists, 18 sons of doctors, and 33 sons of lawyers covered; but 51 boys aspired to become architects, 92 chemists, 59 doctors, and 111 lawyers. As many as 286 boys intended to become teachers, though only 108 were teachers' sons. On the other hand there were 38 sons of clergymen, and 927 sons of farmers; but only 14 and 426 boys respectively aspired to these occupations.
Of 441 daughters of labourers, 13 aspired to nursing, 96 to teaching, 174 to clerical occupations, 31 shop employment, 50 to industrial work, and I Ito domestic service. Only 166 girls altogether contemplated shop and 230 industrial employment. Of the girls 1016 declined to be led into an expression of opinion.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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180GREAT EXPECTATIONS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 14 November 1927, Page 8
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