... him to a broader art world, and her enthusiasm enabled art to become a part of Moore's life out of the classroom. Positively encouraged by Miss Gostick, he was sure of his vocation as an artist. Moore passed the Cambridge Leaving Certificate in 1915, and was thus qualified for further education. He was determined to sit the examinations for a scholarship to the local art college, but his parents regarded such activity as unpromising manual labour and his father thought that he should follow an elder sibling, and incidentally, D.H.Lawrence, another miner's son, into the teaching profession. After a brief introduction as a student teacher Moore began teaching in the same school he had attended in Castleford. The Great War came in the summer that Moore left school. He had just turned sixteen a full month before the outbreak of hostility, and as an older boy he was asked by the ...

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