The chairman ol the Auckland Education Board, Mr C. E. Banks, recently remarked: “One ol' trie greatest delects ol our high school system is that 85 per cent ol the boys when leaving school have' received no training that fits them to take up any definite occupation. Only about 10 or 15 per cent enter the learned professions. The other 85 per cent come out ol the high school at the age ol about 18 without the slightest idea as to what work they wish to take up, and go into offices and become clerks or enter some ‘blindalley’ occupation. The worst of it is ihat they come to look down on the man who takes oft his coat aiVd does manual work
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Shannon News, 21 October 1921, Page 4
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