THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Instilling Tims Timm: H's. The "bread and butter” conception of education is to-day widely approved. In a young country like tins it has much in its favour. Rut here as in Australia even that ideal is being increasingly challenged. In many quarters there are doubts whether education should so determinedly aim
at assisting certain persons to earn a lucrative and somewhat elegant living in the profession-. education in citizenship, it is fell, might well be the main function of the State. The pupil who. in addition to being a good citizen seeks also to win academic distinction should be left to do so more by bis own exertion. Out of the conflict of opinion a universally acceptable educational ideal may yet emerge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1924, Page 2
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126THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1924, Page 2
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