SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 10 December 1930, Page 11

SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.

HEADMASTER EXPRESSES DOUBTS. (uniTZB I'rtESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELDCTIEI* TELEGEAPH —COPXSIGHT.) SI'DXEY, December 9. Speaking at the Scots College priaegiving, the principal, Mr J. Bee, declared that schoolmasters had lamentably failed m their efforts to train children passing through their hands. "We boast that New South Wales has an education system equal to any in the world, yet to a extent the scholars turned out jyppear incapable of thinking for themselves," he declared. ''l don't often touch on matters outside of school life; but one cannot "look upon the events of recent years with<out realising to some extent that democracy appears to have failed. "The workers have extensive machinery for settling disputes; yet, when some grievance, real or imaginary, arises, they obey an outside adviser and strike. They seem unabi© to grasp the fact that the immense loss of wages cannot be made up. They also seem carried away by the promises of politicians who know they are incapable of fulfilment. - These things make mo feel that we schoolmasters have failed." [Mr James Bee, M.A., M.Sc., wta born at Oamaru, and educated at the Oamaru District High School, Otaeo University, and Victoria College, Wellington (M.A. honours in mathematics, 'M.Sc. honours in chemistry). He "was science and mathematics master at Wellington College, New Zealand, for 18 years; headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, for seven years; and has been principal «jf Scots College. Sydney, since 1914. He is 66 years~cf age.]