Don't talk to me—I'm in the Isle of Man!

Abstract

THE YOUNG LADY WHO MADE THE REMARK WHICH IS THE title above was doing a repetitive assembly job of a kind which could be performed automatically once the necessary skills had been mastered. There are many jobs like that. But there are others where the necessary repetitive actions have to be accompanied by concentration, the assembly line jobs which offer no intellectual satisfactions nor have the compensation of daydreaming which ameliorates so many of the dull tasks which mass production demands. Other skills are of a different order — they may tax dexterity, or memory, or visual perception or subtle sensory judgments. Can such varied skills be taught and if so how? It is this BBC television series TRAINING IN SKILLS which sets out to examine the problem.

Citation

HUGHES, A.M. (1970), "Don't talk to me—I'm in the Isle of Man!", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 2 No. 7, pp. 341-344. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003081