On Higher Education
"I wovld absolutely interdict the expenditure on all this higher education we hear so much of. I beiievo we are inflicting an injury on the youth of this colony by endeavoring to attract them so much to colloges and universities. The tendencies of the age are in the direction of creating parasites instead of producers, and I regret to s"ay that many of the parents of children who have gained their independence with the axe and the plough, think their children should not follow in their father's footsteps, and would rather they, should come to town and get billets. I think that the education .system of • the present age has a tendency to- intensify the evils of the age — namely, the abnormal congestion of the large centres of population."— -[Mr Bruce, during the No-Confidence debate. —Hansard.] /
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 6, 26 June 1886, Page 3
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139On Higher Education Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 6, 26 June 1886, Page 3
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