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BLACK COAT PROFESSIONS
WOULD-BE PRIME MINISTERS
WOULD MAKE BETTER BLACKSMITHS
In his review of the work of the year at the Horsham (V.) High School, the headmaster (Mr. L. R. Brookes) described as folly the notion of thousands of parents that their boys should be trained for the “black-coat professions.”
Mr Brookes said “I would warn the ambitious mother against the inclination to make her pet son a Prime Minister or a High Court judge, when he would make a far more efficient farmer, blacksmith or orchardist. That is why I say – ‘intelligently’ guide the youngsters.”
The Mercury, 1933
The cockerels were still crowing when the motor car approached the long drive of Greenhills, the block Clyde’s parents farmed. A boy casting grain to the chickens, and another who was splitting wood,
