THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Eut'CATION. Never has such a widespread interest been taken in education as is today, and never have so many novel theories been propounded. It is naturally a subject upon width everyone feels himself qualified to express ail aul horitative opinion. In all civilised intries compulsory education has lioi'ii in tonc* for n j£Ciu*r:ition or two, and we are all educated in a sense. We have all lively recollections of our own schooldays, and most of us. no doubt, in our immature wisdom, felt that there was ample mom tor improvement in the system hv which wo were taught. We have all. at one time or another. In-on in conflict with
our pa-tors and masters, whose views upon what was desirable did not invariably coincide with our own. Who has forgotten the difficulty he had in grasping the profound truth that two negatives make an affirmative, or his laborious traverse of the Pons AsiiKinim ] But times have changed and are changing still.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 2
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165THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 2
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