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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 297, 4 September 1918, Page 5

Speaking at the Dunedm Technical College on Friday, the Hon. J. A. Hanaii, Minister of Education, eaid that during the first eighteen, years of their lives many of the Dominions young people grew up under home and sohool conditions whioh were comparatively easy, and they expeotod a mutinuance of such times for the rest or their lives, believing that the world owed them a living. Hβ. wan not prepared to say that parents were no.t in epma instances responsible (for t«us state of affairs by reason of the easygoing influence of tho homo and the desire- of some parents to see their boys and girls living without soiling their hands. Some youths woreing up under the belief that to labour with the hands was tho other follow'e misfortune. The Minister said there wcro differences in aptitudes and capacities among young people. Hβ was a, strong believer in higher education at State institutions for those who would profit by it, and for full provision being mado for free education for the teaching of tho bright intellects (whether found ill the cottage or tho mansion) for the service of tho State. Ho did not wish to see so many-youths of averago minds, who had aptitudes for trades or farming purßuite in which they, would attain, a high standard of skill and efficiency, influenced away from industrial work and taking up clerical, unskilled work, or misfit occupations. Ho was nnxious that this type should take advantage of , tho facilities offered for obtaining suitable training and instruction at technical schools.