INDIVIDUALITY FOR NEW ZEALAND
^'Education in New Zealand sliould not follow slavisMy the system in England or any other country, but should boldly work out its own salvation," said Mr A. Douglas, principal of the New Zealand Friends' School, at Wanganui, who has just been to England and America to study education. ''Nor should the spiritual conceptions of the expanding mind of our growing citizens be overleoked. If we are to develop as - a free, peace-loving, law-abiding, happy people— and our very isolation gives ns a wonderful opportunity — then we must remember that mental attitude and activity are as vital as the acquisition of knowledge. England and America seem to Spare no expense for buildings, equipment, and adequate staffing for classes of reasonable size, knowing that education is the means by which* human beings jlearn to live. New "Zealand, too, can be proud of its attainments, but must remember that the final aim, for domocratic countrios at least, should be a self-controlled personality."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 4
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