"EXAMS. NEED LOW CUNNING"
Presa Asin.— Gopynght.)
Bishop's Outspoken Views Qn Education "HOCUSSING PARENTS"
(By Telegraph—
LONDON, June 25. Describing school examinations as "competitions in fow cunning" between the examiners and examinees, the Bishop of Bradford on speech day at St. Edmunds, Canterbury, Congratulated the prizewinners on their ingenuity "If the examiner can bowl out a boy, it is one up to him, but if the boy makes the examiner bClieve that he knows more than he actually does, he scores. "The prizewinner is th one with the biggest apparatus for low cunning. A headmaster has to speak of scholastic honours to please the Governors and hocus the. parents. Three-quarters of what is learned at school is useless. The, important thing is not how much information the scholars acquire, but whether th© school produces the mental zest which is the ioundation of true culture."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 137, 26 June 1937, Page 5
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