Thoughts For The Times
Where Modern Education Fails. •Any kind of reform depended for its success necessarily on an educated community. ' Of all reforms which were urgently needed none was more emphatical’than education and to this field the Friends had always had a special drawing. Modern education was so seldom inspired by hope that it rarely achieved great results. Modern education . was too “bookish. - ’ Among the things which were desired for an ideal school was a closer connection with the outside world and greater means used to teach our children on broad and generous lines—an education that would make fo-r freedom boldness of thought, and individuality,
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1920, Page 2
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106Thoughts For The Times Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1920, Page 2
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