A FINNISH VISITOR
PROMINENT EDUCATIONIST
One of the delegates to the New Education Fellowship Conference in July will be Rektor L. Zilliacus> who will be the only representative from Scandinavia. . • ■'}'■'
Rektor Zilliacus received his early education partly in Sweden the United States, and Finland, but .chiefly at Bedales School, in England, where he took the Higher Cei-tificate of the Oxford and, Cambridge Joint Board. He then continued his studies.in Cornell University and in the Engineering School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologjr, from which he received his B.Sc. , , ;
During his time at the: Institute of Technology he worked with the Boston North-end Settlement where he .was in charge of boys' clubs. Rektor Zilliacus also spent seven years at Bedales as housemaster.. and senior science master. ....
: On returning to Finland he. founded an experimental school in Helsingfors, of which he is still headmaster. This school caters for children" of :all ages from about six to , twenty-one, - and is designed, to .. use freer, and better methods than usual. •
- Rektor Zilliacus has had an extremely varied experience..- He'has visited a great number of schools in Europe and ■ America, and has served1;on the editorial, boards of several educational publications, in, Sweden .and. Finland.* For several.years he was vice-president of the Finnish-British Society and he has been a membsr of the executive committee of the New Education' Association iri; Finland, and is its representative oh the International Council of the New Education Fellowship.. He is joint chairman with Dr. Carson Ryan of the New Education, Fellow-
ship Examinations Commission and general secretary of ;' the1 .Carnegie Examinations. Inquiry., in ' Finland. He has been a member of -the executive board of the New' Education Fellowship since its inception and of the consultative committee before that, and is at. present the , chairman of . the executive board. ' Rektor Zilliacus will be accompanied by his wife and family, :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 5
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