NOISE AND THE CHILD MIND
"I must say 1 blame tke wireless a good deal for a type of mind wkich seems common among children to-day, that is the one that simply does not take in, and very often does not even hetar,- what is said to it in perfectly plain English," said Miss A. E. Satchell, headmistress of the Waikato Diocesan School for Girls, speaking at the school break-up. "The present generation," said Miss Satchell, ''is so used to the Wireless blaring forth all day with everybody talking through it, and , nobodv really listening, that they grow up with a background of noise, and, I suppose by way of self-protection they simply close that part of" their brain which listens attentively. I think that accounts for the fact that very few children cau take home a message absolutely correctly, and for the extraordinarily incorrect and unreliable accounts of happeniugs which they often give. I should be grateful if pai'ents of day pupils would see that their children have some quiet place away from the wireless in which to do their homework. I am sure it would be done in half the time."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 4
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