While the authors agree that 'British schooling has for too long been impoverished by rigid and elitist ideas of academic worth', their study concludes that youth training in the form it took at that time did not solve the problem. They found that trainees complained that they were being prepared for 'Noddy jobs'. The trainees' comments illustrate this: '"All I learned was how to make the tea.... I used to pick up loads of potatoes and coal and load the lorry. I got all sweaty and dirty. The reason they wanted me was as a sort of dogsbody'" (Lee et al. 1990, p. 166). Only one trainee, in a hospital, felt that she was receiving proper training, but she faced the hostility of NHS auxiliaries who felt that she represented 'cheap labour' filling the place of one of their number.