PICTURES AND EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 6

PICTURES AND EDUCATION

Sir-In mv letter on "Pictures and attributed to me by Mr. Snevw lent rnai •"our "re?, wnlnr. and oommilsory sjsten o education has not'had.an e!ev<n,lßtendency."' I must decline to accch Xnsibility for a «r«P">« » statement of this character T a*e.frd that an fdiicnlion ffflem oiwht to ui o the mow), intellectual, amUrtisf.cndej > nnd standards, of the peopje, andl if He statements made by inem :«'» of he Council of regarding ne POP' laritv of objectionable picture l' ,a S s .?-° o,?ct all is not well with sv--tom I staled, nnd I repeat, that one t Sight vea,onably have «P«ted tha « , voars of free, secular, and :oinuulsoi.\ education would have sufficientlv jmpro - ed the publ c taste to make it.impossmie or such a section of our People delipht in debasing a ,i t "? ernoler imrt of Mr. Sienvrißiit= lettci as no direct .Kurineon the pomts ra>* ed bv me, I aß''ee with n. coed deall of hi. argument, but T would, remindl him that it is an extremely difficult talc to make just comparison between * » different generations. Comp-lc it hisloi ians are Very reluctant to millK in comparisons. Wo are probnlil> he( ter than our forefathers in some hinus worse in others. Loss and Rain, mosrcw and rctroßression are ™ 'nternunglc l lint the more one l;nows of history tho less. h one inclined to pronounce ««?»«'"« judgments such as those so -freely gnc bv Mr. Siewrißhr. I would siißgcst to Mr Sievwright that he should be moic severe in j wiping ourselves ( nd more leniont in judging Hie Victorians. [I might make us a little more modest it we asked ourselves how we would tare If Ho, which is the top of judgment should But judge us as we arc? ~ T m ' C,C " X. E. BTJKTON. Auckland, Jijjy H.