Big Part For Education In World Peace
WELLINGTON, May 9. The belief that education must play an important part in attaining world peace and security, and that edueational reconstruction was concerned basically with persons ralher than with things, was exprcssed by Mr. J. H. S. Robertson (Whenuakura, Hawera) in his presidential address today to the New Zealand Edueational Institute in Wellington. Tracing the development of education from the Factory Act, 1802, onwards, Mr. Robertson remarked that the most spectacular advances had usually been made following a national or international crisis. Swift and disturbing changes in the fields of technology and science and art, music and literature had been accelerated by the first world war. Thoueh the future of Unesco was necessarily uncertain, its fate and its ideals were to a large degree in the hands of the teachers of the world, said Mr. Robertson. "I firmly believe," he added, "that we as teachers are interested in the activities of organisations like Unesco, but if we are not then we should cease once and for all talking about rendering professional service."
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 May 1949, Page 5
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