Are You a Specialist?
HE 42ZB Citizens’ Forum (which should nowadays be called a Brains Trust, since the citizens who are heard in it are handpicked), got on to the wide subject of specialisation the other night, and a half-hour of assorted opinions followed. We were informed that specialisation makes for monotony, but that it needn’t; that an unspecialised job too can be monotonous; that in the professions specialisatior’ is necessary and good; that in industry monotonous specialisation bores the worker, but that some workers seem to thrive on it. Out of all this, the question-master did manage to save a few points with which to sum up the discussion, but a great many points were glossed over or left as unresolved discords. One particular point wags made, as it were, in parenthesisthe suggestion that in primitive societies the peasant still works from dawn till dark. The inference was that in a civilised country like our own specialisation has changed all that-the 40hour week and so on. I am sure there Were a few dozen housewives and farmers'among the listening audience who felt like ringing 4ZB and giving someone a piece of an overworked and unspecialised mind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 8
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197Are You a Specialist? New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 8
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