A Course for Careers Teachers

“I'm doing nothing for the war effort” answered the famous artist in the First World War — “I'm part of the civilisation you're fighting to defend.” There are some teachers in secondary schools who think in this way about the world of industry. Very properly they are preparing their pupils for living, and living is to them something very different from earning a living. They themselves went from school to university or training college and then back to school. ‘Industry’ goes its mysterious way in its great ugly buildings, and they know nothing of it. Of course the monster is going to devour their pupils when they leave school, but perhaps they can save half of them by splitting each personality into two — Dr Jekyll the breadwinner who will have to earn a living, and Mr Hyde the man of sensibility who will live.