The Guardian And Evening Star, with, which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1928, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with, which is incorporated the West Coast Times. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.

EDUCATIONAL IDEALS. Speaking at Auckland recently in support of the proposal to send a New Zealand delegation to a conference at Vancouver in 1929, which is calculated to evolve a different system of education for promoting the ideals of citizenship and higher individual character, Professor IV. F. Osborne, of Manitoba University, who has come to the Dominion at the instance of the Canadian Council of Education, said the aim of the scheme was to promote a more efficient education system and mass the attention of citizens in the British Empire on the desirability of formulating national debts. The pages of history afforded testimony of what could be accomplished in developing national characteristics. The French by sheer intention, had effected t:ie intellectual education of their people. Their characteristics could be traced to standards set in the seventeenth century. In the case of Germany also the mentality of the people had been dominated in the schools. This was an alarming case of what nations could achieve through the medium of education, and it was reasonable to suppose that this medium could be exploited by persausiv© effort to promote the higher ideals of duty, responsibility, integrity and service. He maintained that the sole purpose of education was not to equip children merely to earn money, but was also intended to produce men and women who were a credit to their country. There was no community that could afford to lie back with self-complacency and say that it had this, that a.nd the other. There was a divine note to strive for great ideals and competition between divers institutions that would make young people great. There was the aspect of the quality of citizenship also to be considered. He urged the tuning up of the schools and the stimulating of teachers with the idea that the schools were places where national aspirations were built up. He referred to the dangers that existed with the great strides that were being made with aviation, and said that if international relations Were not Christianised, the world would be destroyed. It was desired that the British nation should remain powerful and united to carry on its world-wide mission, not in the way of arrogant domination, but according to its best traditions. In conclusion, he

stressed the desirability of maintaining the British Empire and the development of international peace and world-wide brotherhood by other means than simply dragging out tho routine of life.