EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 147, 9 July 1937, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS

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Earl Stanhope's Mettage To Auckland Confercnce GOODWILL EXPRESSEQ

(By Telegnpb-

AUCKLAND, This B«y. An offieial message of goodwiil from the British Government was brought te the Now Educational Conference by Mr G. T. Hankin from Earl StanhOpe, President of the Board of Education. The message states: "It gives me graat pleasure to eend my greetings to ihe conferences of the New Education Fellowship, which are being held in New Zealand afid Australia. I am sura that in bringing together from many parts of the Empire and other countries those who are interested in education either as teachers or administrators the organisers of these conferences are performing a most useful service. "Your agenda is a very wide one— nothing less, in fact, than education for complete living. I have no doubt that those attending the conference will find, notwithstanding the widely different ciroumstances and conditions of life in the countries they represent, that they are coneerned with the same fundamental educational problems and are interested in the same general pxin* ciples of educational progress. I nnt glad to know that you havo been able to assemble and take out with you an exhibition illustrating, on however small a scale^ the present lendency Of English education. "This sharing of experience in rela* tion to our common educational problems seems to me to be perhaps tha most fruitful form of intelleetnal cooperation. It is a kind of international commerce into which no elemente of competitiveness or jealously can enter save competition in the service of tho child and jealousy for the welfare of future generations. I wiflh the con* ferences every possible success "