WHAT IS RIGHT?

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 3

WHAT IS RIGHT?

“ What is lacking in the world,” said Mr P. H. B. Lyon, of Rugby School, in a recent speech, “ as I see it to-day, is not information, but reason; not knowledge, but wisdom; not efficiency, but morality. “ J don’t think it is our place to be discussing perpetually tariffs and sanctions and armaments, but it is our business to teach our pupils to think clearly, to see through pretence, to despise the second rate. This, _we believe, we try to teach them in their work. “ In our games we are not, i hope, encouraging them to think success is all that matters, however it is won. Indeed, the excellent discipline of the football field may, in future years, teach them not to view _ with indifference any tyrant who, with a fine dis-

regard for the rules of the game, may gas and bomb his way into a peaceful and innocent country. . “Clear thinking and fair play; and something more still. There are many here to-day who will play a part, great or small, in later years in their country’s policy, Way they play rt intelligently and nobly. Vetit is still move important that they should leari; always to sav, not ‘ What is expedient, or What ‘is profitable? ’ but ‘ What is right? ’ It is a question wo listen tor in these days almost in vain. Yet, if you can learn to ask it, you will have in your time an influence with shrewd wits or honest stupidity will never win you.”