THE NEW EDUCATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1928, Page 3

THE NEW EDUCATION.

“ AVc liave come to recognise that life has in it more than livelihood; that a good schooling is not the only requisite of a good education; that school itself is not even the prime influence in. education. And, in the schools, their are many signs of adaptation to this changed mode of viewing educational problems. It has been shown in actual practice, not only by a few pioneers, but by most of those engaged in and about schools, that discipline need not he a penance, nor learning always irksome; that serious work is not incompatible with occasional hilarity; and that excess of the rod is much more likely to spoil a, child than the sparing of it. The formidable pedant is giving place to the prudent, counsellor; the forbidding school-marm to the snuve adviser who, by sanity and clear thought, flings a challenge to imitation rather than furnishes an acid warning of what not to be. It is becoming more widely believed even by young people that a man can be an artist without ceasing to be a human being, a scholar without being a bookworm,' an athlete without self-satisfic- 1 disdain of the weaker vessel; that a woman can be learned and not a bluestocking, and as exquisite in free movement as in cultivated deportment.”— From “ Essays on Education,” by H. E. Haig Brown.