BY EDUCATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 31, 20 March 1942, Page 2

BY EDUCATION

DEMOCRATIC SURYIVIL

"It is inevitably clear that the democracy which will survive and flourish, the democracy that will not cloak a sordid scramble for vanishing materialistic values, can only be created by education," writes Sir Cyril Norwood, ex-lieadmaster of Harrow and now president of St. John's College, Oxford, in "Victory Now and After." And the question arises whether we are far-sighted and generous enough to create after the war that educated and disciplined democracy which can really make the world a better place. At bottom beneath the whole education must lie the living faith that the eternal values of truth, goodness and beauty, whereby God reveals Himself to men, are imperishable, and may not be blasphemed. For us there can be but one revelation of Christ. Have we not had enough of purely secular instruction, which deprives the young living soul of the one thing which supremely matters? One could easily go on. This policy means at the outset the spending of a hundred millions or more on buildings, great systems of training, increased salary bill, inconvenience, change, and a general waking up from slumber by the whole nation. By this way and no other lies true democracy; this way and no other genuine freedom."