THE BLIGHT OF BOREDOM
In au address to the students of the City of London College, Lord Macmillan said that of all the deadly things in the world boredom was surely the worst, and one of the greatest advantages of education was that it prevented one from being bored. The greatest thing to achieve in life was a keen interest in one's occupation; not to 'be bored with.it; to feel at the end of the day that it had been all too short for what one wanted to do; and the value of education was that.it tended to make one feel that the day was all too short to explore all the.fields that lay before one. • Commerce was a great thing, and in the. City of London they knew what it had clone for the country, but there was also a commerce of ideas, and in that college those interests wore combined. 'Economists told them that there would be more leisure in the future and less actual labour, and the result would be that there, would be more time to spend upon.their own interests. Education had therefore a great responsibility ih preparing people to spend that increased leisure properly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1934, Page 14
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