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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1926, Page 2

THTK PEA CIO POWER OF EDTTCATIOX. “W bile wo each of us are vitally concerned in the advancement of our own country, we must of necessity He interested in the advancement of all. Just as invention and discovery have brought the world into small compass and developed a community more highly sympathetic, so we must establish and abide by international, social, commercial and diplomatic traffic rules. This necessitates an international atti-t-ure or mode of thinking which we call the “international mind.’ The people of the earth must now live together, and we the teachers of the world’s children, must prepare them for these new relations. This does not mean that the now world citizen must be unmindful of his own country, that his patriotism must l>o discarded any more than making a man a good neighbour would require a man to forget his own family. We have come into a day when human interest, human sympathy, human love can know no bounds and no national lines.’’—Mr A. O .Thomas, president of the First Biennial Conferences of Education Associations.