THE LUMBER ROOM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 160, 24 July 1937, Page 4

THE LUMBER ROOM

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uood-hye Mr. Ohips. Those who gaw "The Lost Horizon ' ' may or may not remember that this great film was made from the story vritten by James Hilton in 1934. In the eame year he also wrote "Good Bye, Mr. Chips" and in it he gives with sympathy and humour the life of a man who has spent his whole life for the boys of his school. Not as headmaster, yet acting as such on numerous occasions he sees the school through many difficult times. He aets as the connecting link between the old type of school master who ruled with rod and Greek lexicon and the new master fresh from Oxford who ' ' even let the Sixth call him by hi3 Christian name;" And what happened at Brookfield, his school, is typical of schools throughout the Empire where men and women labour in the class room or on the playdng fields lead on their younger companions to learu the game of life. New Frontiers For Youth. Our geographical frontiers are exhausted, and the learned professions — especially law and medicine — are seriously overcrowded. On the other hand, youth should realise — and education must stress the fact — that although conditions have changed, opportunity hae not lessened. Quite the reverse. The phenomenal advances of modern life are creating new opportunities /unknowa to the youth of yesterday. New professions arise, fresh areas of achievement open up. But it is no longer a geographical frontierj virtually limitless, it begins wherever yoiing men and women learn to apply trained imagination and resourcefulness. — H. W. Chase. Huckleberry Finn Talks of School. I had been to school most all tho time, during the winter, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, 'and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live for ever. I don't take no stock in mathematics anyway. At first I hated school, Dut b.v and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired I playsd hookey,. and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up. — Mark Twain. When We Know All About Psychology. When we know ail aDout psychology, the world will be rather dull. If Bacon had discovered the psychology of the unconscious, Shakespeare might have been analysed and forthwith might have gone in for keeping bees Qnstead of writing plays. It is the neurotic who leada the world; he is a rebel and he is an idealist. Yet when you analyse him you find what a poor devil he is! his passion for Sociahsm come-s from liis infant fear of and rebellion 'against his father. What I want to know is this: In the year 5000., when everyone is free from " iepressions and s.uppreasi,ons, will there be any rebels to spur humanity 'onV — "A Domiuie in Doubt," by A. SL Neill,

Out of the Mouth of/Babes, or — uawitting. Wit and. Wisdom, of the Classroom. Chivalry is the attitude of a man- to a strange woman. To be healthy don't eat any kind of food. - The Bible is against bigamy when it says that no man can serve two masters. A mugwump is a bird that sits on a f ence with its mug on one side side • and its wump on the other. In Milton 'e time, England would have been a much holier place if everybody had belonged to the sarne sex. — ^Alexander Abingdon. Why Growu-up People Do not Play With Toys. There is only one reason why all grown-up people do not play with toys; and at is a fair reason. The reason is tiiat playing with toys takes so very much more time and trouble than any thing else. Playing as children mean playing is the most serioue thing in the world. And as soon as we have small duties or small sorrows we have to abandon to some extent • so enormous aud ambitious a plan of life. We have enough strength for politics and commerce and art and philosophy; we have not enough strength for play. — Tremendous Trifles, by G. K. Chesterton. The Pursuit of Knowledge. One of the most pathetie spectacle* in the world is that of grown-up persons legislating for the young. Lis* tening to these, we are led to suspect that a certain section of the human race — the legislative-— must have beeu born into the world aged about forty, sublimely iguorant of the requireineuts, limitations, and point of view of infancy and adolescence .... What is an educational expert? • Tho answer is simple. Practically evervbody. All parents are educational experts; we have only to listen to a new boy's mother laying down to a headmaster *the lines upon which his school should be conducted to realise that. So are all politicians — So are the clergy — So, presumably are the writers of manuals and text books — So are the dear old gentlemen who come down to present the prizes on Speech Day. Practically the only section of hu- . manity to whom the title is denied are the people who have* to teaeh. — "The Lighter Side of School Life" by lan Hay." Spauking Before the Microphone. Hysteria ha^ broken out among the pupils of St. George's Council School, London, Ontario, as a result ' of the headmaster 'a ' ' experiment " of broadcasting spankings to all classes by means of special equipment. Boy and girl pupils, hearing the swish of the strap and the victims screams, went wild with fright. Parents are a^king the authorities to ban the headmaster, Mr. Frederiek Galpin, from spanking before the microphone. "It's just an experiment in school management," says Mr. Galpin. — Daily Mirror.