Excerpt from Labour and Industry: A Series of Lectures The opportunity for capacity which up to that time was unrevealed both to the individual and the mass - to men and also to women? Is it not natural and right that our young men who have come home from the war, and our young women who have learned, part of them at any rate, forthe first time, the great things that they were capable of, that they Should all of them as individuals have a new valuation of themselves, and indeed that everybody who has to deal with them in ...
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Excerpt from Labour and Industry: A Series of Lectures The opportunity for capacity which up to that time was unrevealed both to the individual and the mass - to men and also to women? Is it not natural and right that our young men who have come home from the war, and our young women who have learned, part of them at any rate, forthe first time, the great things that they were capable of, that they Should all of them as individuals have a new valuation of themselves, and indeed that everybody who has to deal with them in any relations should recognise and welcome that new valuation? Perhaps Imay put it this way. In my deliberate opinion any young fellow who has been through this war, and any young woman who has answered the call in her own sphere during the war, has received during those five years a University education superior to what any of us got in the Old days, or any person gets to-day, in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Manchester, or Liverpool, or so on. I mean that any young man or young woman who had any real substance in him or her before the war has had it, with the experience, the opportunities, of the war, increased probably an hundredfold. Therefore I look upon the future adjustment Of our industry to meet the truth of such a situation with the greatest hope. What fools we should be if we failed to take that human factor into the fullest account and to give it a full opportunity of making its mark. Before the war there was already a claim for a higher status for the individuals that go to make up the mass of our population. That, as I say, was the natural result of the Spread of education and is it not a good thing that there should be that healthy aspiration, namely, that the ordinary work of daily life should be not measured wholly on the cash basis, wholly on the number of hours which are worked or which are passed away, but that there should be a claim right through from all the varied human units. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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