These are rummy "results!" See this lad, now; he's pale; he's well-packed, I suppose
With the stuff that your "Standards" require; well, his schooling must come to a close;
To stuff him, and lots of his like, rate-collectors must put on the screw.
Well, when you have done with the nipper, the question comes, what can he do?
Will his bag of books stand him in stead, when he ought to have tools in his bag?
Are your "Standards" quite up to the mark, if they lead to the Black or Red Flag?
Oh, bother your 'isms and 'ologies! Excellent things in their way;
But bread-winning wants something else, and the 'isms without it won't pay.
Yes—"Technical Knowledge" they call it—means practical gumption and skill,
Or used to when I was a youngster; it may be a sort of a pill,