It’s unlikely that a career guidance teacher could easily identify the potential winemakers in a matric class.

He/she might more likely discern future lawyers, doctors, nuclear scientists and physical education instructors (perhaps even the traders and entrepreneurs) lurking within a group of 18 year olds. If my teachers were as smart as they pretended to be, I guess the unemployable and the future jailbirds would be visible too...

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