EDUCATION'S CHIEF OBJECT
"I am noF much of an optimist about the results to be obtained from education. I value the results highly, but I do not share the enthusiasm of those "who believe that, if this or that educational system were adopted, we should be marching rapidly towards a William Morris Utopia," writes Mr Robert Lynd in the " Schoolmaster." " I do not believe that human beings would grow up more intelligent or humane if the teaching of Latin and Greek were abolished. I do not ' think that, if the exam'ination systein were serapped, young men • would as a consequenee leave the university with finer or freer minds than the young men of to-day. I do not believe that, if every sehool were turned into a Liberty Hall, the emergence of a race of happier or nobler human beings would be the inevitable sequel. The chief objcct of education is, I suppose, to provide the young human being with the instruments for acquiring knowledge and arranging it intelligently; and there is much to be said for the view that both the examination system and the teaching of Latin have helped in this."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 51, 23 November 1937, Page 4
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