EDUCATION AND CIVILISATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 4

EDUCATION AND CIVILISATION.

"These is not any thing startlingly new in education. It is mostly a regrouping of facts and a shifting of empMsis," Said Mr L. Zilliaeus, the Fittni&h Cducationist ,Who is a delegate* to the NeW Education Fellowghip Oonference, in Christchurch. "We do not intend to tell you what to do in New Zealand, thoUgh we may perh-aps give some small fruits of experience which may be of direet use. "We are all very humble-minded about what we may possibly do here; both beeause of What we already knoW of NOW Zealand attd be. eause we have left behind US a world WhOre much which you tako as a matter of course, essential to civilisatioU, has already been threatolied liere as in Europe, they are not so much itt the foreground of your conseiousness. We may be able to impress on you these special values. "We may also be able to teacb yoii by givifig ex&mplCS df the inesses which have been made in eettain arts of the world. But our function is ehiefly that of a trigger to l0t lOOse the flood of ifiterest Ih education. That there is such a flood is evident. So Our function is a modest one." There wero people all over the world working for a better, more just, more ehliglitciied, and moro kindly eivilisation. Unless tliey joined hands there was no hope for civilisation, wliicli was, Willy nilly, a World divillffttioflu