DAY-DREAMS.
" Educational thought has changed for the better since daydreamiiig was reckdiied a frivolous waste of tinie. No persoii with a reasonable share of intelligenee and hiinlan syUlpathy will flnd anything either to deplore or to laugh at in the sUggestion of a speaker at the New Education Fellowship eonference in Adfelaide that adolesfient girls should be alloWed a period of day-dreaming. Frequent relalation is as necessary for the mind as for the muscles. Just as the eyes instinctively seek the restfulness of the beauty of outdoors as a relief from indoOr coneentration, so the soul seeks to wahder idly in the realm of imagination. Nor should the boon be restricted to sclioolgirls. EvOryohe would be the better for giving the hiind brief but frequent periods of freedom from regimentation. Humanity is not yet free from the old inhibition that it is an intellectual fein to perruit the mind to wahder. But the mind has a miiid of its own, and iflsiSts UpOn wandering Sometimes. Not to everyone come those moments of complete mental projeCtion into another sphere whi'ch Wordsworth prized as his greatest spirithal blessing."-— The ArguS, Melbourne.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 4
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189DAY-DREAMS. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 4
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