MASS MENTALITY.
EDUCATION METHODS DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE LONDON, July 12. “Mental mass production” has been roundly denounced by prominent people at recent school speech days. Sir Charles Grant Robertson, principal and Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University, crystallised the criticism of modern educational methods when he said the tendency toward mass production not only materially, but also mentally, was deplorable. “With the great development of science and with the way in which tliincs are going,” he said, it seems to me to be the particular object of far too many people to mould us all into one common, uniform and depressing mass.” Ho added that he had an aversion to being instructed by wireless, along with 10,000,000 others, as to what he should .read in his leisure moments.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 250, 3 August 1937, Page 5
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126MASS MENTALITY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 250, 3 August 1937, Page 5
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