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M.A. AND BUSINESS-MAN EXCHANGE OPINIONS.
The following argument on the question "Is the Public-School Touch Any Good in Business," between Mr. Walter Ashley, M.A., of the Y.M.C.A., and Sir Herbert Morgan, K.B.E., an authority on business organisation; recently appeared in a London paper from which we quote. as follows: 127.
3. Asuley. I suppose you find, then making himself familiar with the business concerned. If I were no difficulty, Sir Herbert, la re-
sure he had the right stuff in him, cruiting as many new, men as you'd be willing to wait to get him. want from time to time for your various businesst.
SIR HERBERT MORGAN-On the contrary, Ashley, I find the great est difficulty in getting hold of men to train for the highest positions.
A-But surely you get any aum her of applicants whenever You have a vacatiey!
M.-Oh, yes, it's always fairly easy to fill a subordinate vacancy. The really responsible administra- tive jobs are another matter.
A. Can't you do it by gradually promoting the best of the subordi astes?
Kowloon Arr. 6.17 2,03 11.32 11.43 19.07 19.48 380 5,36 6.44 7.00 7,297,34 should prefer to promote a subordi-
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A.-But why wait Ave years to get a public-school-university man when you could select an equally suitable boy of the same age at a good day school, and either engage him on the spot, or tell him to come to you in a couple
years when he had got to the top of the school!
C
able boys and the hard workers. 1 have seen both teudencies at work.
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Specialised Interests, " M.-There may have been some- thing in that some years 389, To day most of the public schools have reorganised their machinery, that a boy with real ability in any particular direction is afforded plenty of stimulus to develop it. One well-known public school, for example, now has not only the old cinhsical sixth form for its senior M.The public school and univer- boys; it has a science sixth, a nities set as a sort of sieve. I pre- í biological sixth. nathematica. fer them to do the initial sifting rather than to have to do it myself. Most of the boys who get through that sicre come from good healthy stook. Most of them have well developed bodies. Most of them have good manners. And healthy stock, physical fitness, and good ranners do count in business, whatever may be said.
sixth, and a history sixth. That covers a good many specialised in- Iterests, doesn't it? On the other hand, one day school boy I know. who was keen about history, got so little encouragement that he had to leave. The public school to which he was then sent had adequate provision, for that subject, and, within four terms, be got a history scholarship at Oxford.
"Gramming."
Need For Now Blood. M-No, not always-especially in the smaller companies. Frankly, I
nate whenever possible. In large
Day School Boya. wide companies there is such a
A-I hardly think the public A-Talking of scholarships, here variety of choice that even the schools can claim a monopoly of is an interesting fact. At the re- highest positions, can usually be any of those things. What about cent examinations at Cambridge, Blled by promotion. But many the village doctor's son, or the rec-when_211 scholarships were award- smaller businesses have disappear Lor's golf, whose parents can only ed, the three schools whose boys 4 through not recruiting new staffs afford a good day school, while the were most successful were all day from outside. An efficient hard vulgarians who have bought the schools. working junior can often work him-manor house send their son to an self up some way towards the top, expensive boarding-school 1
-Yes, I saw that. I also saw But there comes a point beyond M-Of course, there are exerp- that the next three on the list were which be cannct go-unless he has tions both ways But in the pub- all public schools. If you took a very exceptional qualities. For the lie schools one should find a higher average over the last ten years, I directive posts you need men with percentage of the right material think you would find there wasn't a combination of qualities which is
A.-Well, let us assume that for | much in it. In any case, the win- extremely rare energy, initiative, the moment, Sir Herbert, But ning of a scholarship does not im- imagination, resourcefulness, leader-what about the one quality for the ply initiative or original ideas. It ship, and organising capacity. absence of which no amount of implies a certain amount of mental
But where else would you health, manners, and family back- training of rather a hot-house kind. |
#round can compensate ability? that's all. In other words, cram- Real capacity, not mere cleverness. ming." Imagination, initiative, foresight-
bone to find such men?
M-I'll tell you one place in which I would look for them-the public schools.
A But sa't mental training, in fact, all the qualities you began mental discipline--even if it is A-Good heavens, I would have by anying you were looking for? partly the result of "cramming thought that the last place in which These gifts are rare as you say.as important in business as any- to look Most of the cleverest In my experience, they are even thing else 1 public-school boys go on afterwards rarer in a public school than in a M-A boy will get that mental to a university. That means, even good day school. The whole public-discipline right enough in business, you, found the right boy of six- school system is based on the prin- whether or not he's had it before. toen er neventoca, you'd have to ciple that every boy must be exact- No, Ashley, though I'm ready to wait four or are years before hely like all the other boys. Only in agree that good material comes could start with you, and a good games are you allowed to shine. If from every class of the community, deal longer than that before he was you happen to be original in any educated and uneducated, and that of any real use to you.
way or bard-working, you must at 7 would take it wherever it could M. I'd be prepared for that, all costs conceal it. The tendency, be found, I still think I shall look: I'd have a talk with the boy and therefore, is to pull down excep for the boys I want in the public see his parcuts and his headmaster.tional boys to the common level: schools and be prepared to wait I'd tell them that, if all went well in a good day school, on the other for them. Don't forget, for leaders and the boy developed in the way hand, it's the other way round. you want tnes who can carry I thought he would develop, I Games are important, but kept in their core." would be prepared to offer him a their place. Intellectual originality A.--If you'll tell me, which school job as soon as he was ready for its quickly recognised and stimu
you're going to start with. Sir I'd ask him to keep in touch with lated. The tendency in its case, Herbert, Pl send my own me. I'd arrange for him to spend therefore, is to pull up the com there and tell him to look out for a month of his holidays now and mon level towards that of the most you!
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