VALUE OF EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 2

VALUE OF EDUCATION

SCHOOL CHILDREN'S THEORIES. Quaint ambitions cherished by London school: children were revealed in recent examinations for scholarships. Most of the boys, to judge from tho report of the chief examiner (Mr. G.'F. Dauiell), were frankly materialistic in estimating the value of education to themselves, though (here were somo dreamers who desired to bo editors, or poets, or "like Lloyd George," nnd there was one bold youth who argued that "if I win a scholarship I could be a spy/'

Other advantages contemplated by candidates appear in tho following passages quoted from their papers:— "A man won't marry an ignorant lady, but if he knows that she has a scholarship he will." (A girl.) "Ib is education that saves you from going to the dogs." "Instead of leading a sordid, unchanging life in a factory, we shall be able to obtain good situations, such as correspondence clerks." "You may become a very great man or else a teacher."

"If God spares our lives, when we grow up wo need not become a teacher." "If there was no such thing as a scholarship I might be going out-char-ring windows or doorsteps, or have a basket ot' flowers to sell or a cntsmeat round."

Tho members, friends, and sympathisers are requested. to swul flowers, cakes, sweets, etc., to ilr. O'Sullivan, land agent, opposite Post Office, for the I'nsl: Ollico stall, Violet Day, that being taken by the Women's National Reserve nnd Victoria League.