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YOUNG
have chosen is more serious, an expert estimate of their unications at the outset of Careers might save some from future disappointment.
Whether the youth is going straight from school into em ployment or is being sent on to one of the universities, the pro- blem is the same. But solu tion is perhaps more
dificult when he is going on to take a degree. The qualities which he will require in the profession of
choice or in following the
me studies are less easily essed and the danger of later disillusionment is, therefore, the greater. Will the young man turn out to be one of that legion who might be described as fit for little else than to hand on to others the book learning they
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1937. have collected? Will be remain substantially uneducated? Dr. R. M. Hutchins, President of Chica- SORTING OUT THE∞o University, recently deplor
ed the fact that students America were able to take the The recent outbreak of an highest degree by a mere know epidemic of school prize days, in ledge of text books and without accordance with practice at this any intellectual development.
The same waste of effort is pos time of the year, means to many more than the end of a school sible in any part of the world. year. It means the end of school a "menselaboratorium cond Efe and a complication soon to sift those who are only capable be faced the choice of a calling of learning from those who re susceptible of education it would for those whose school days are
be a valuable institation. Lover. This is ordinarily decided by one or more of three factors. The boy may go to a job simply because it is one of the few open-
ings available at the moment; he Japan's Reply
may follow the choice of his parents; or, less often, he may Japan has replied to the respond to some urge of his own. American note of protest on the Taken by and large this rather Panay outrage and the United haphazard system has worked States Government have accept- tolerably well. But a recented the apology. It is impossible article in "Careers Guide" makes to believe, however, even if the out a case for a more scientific American attitude means closure solution of these human pro- of the incident, that the Japanese blems.
The author would have reply is viewed as satisfactory amenselaboratorium" on the in Washington or that relations lines followed on the Continent between the two countries are as and in some parts of America. before. Vocational guidance by experts, he feels, should be available for
much
On the surface, the cynic has cause to smile at the result of
youngsters setting out in life. the diplomatx ex anges over The advice given by such a hu- the mcident, with the United man laboratory is based upon States Government physical and psycho-analytical by "going to the limit of examination. Thus the boy who sion and Japan denying every wants to be an engine-daver is implication of the Ameri- assured in advance that his eye can reports and apparently get- sight, his nerves and his tem-ting away with it peramental reactions are ade- All eye-witness versions of the quate to the job. And, what is Panay Sinking proclaim in the perhaps more important, the clearest form the deliberate prospective employer is told
nature of the attack. Mr. Hirota writes to Washington: “It has To illustrate the need for scier- been fully established that the tific method, the author cites bambing was entirely uninten- the depressing results obtained tional". In the attitude in an inquiry at a particular by the Japanese Gove University where it was revealed there is clearly no that 25 per cent of the students condescend to the am studying to become teachers had ourable or to accept turned to that profession quite any shape or form. accidentally; only a small per- In the circumstances, centage had been influenced by astonishing that a liking for it, only five per cent. failed to make had asked themselves whether clear that the reply
Fapan they were fit for the job, and 38 factory. The per cent. were taking the course because they had to ma-liv-
rehension, but the ing and this prof
offered
the best opportunity. Probably
would have remove
could
no amount of psycho-analysis element of doubt. As it is, could minimise the fact that, in Japan's military
te bread given nothing but encour
and-butter outlook not only sets ment
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