THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
R r„w, Education. ‘•lt is a fact that all the men who made the British Empire were classical scholais, men who thought in terms of the past,” said Professor R. S- Conway, professor of classics at Manchester I'niversity, when addressing menv hers of the New Zealand Club. Real education, the professor went on to say. was a process of making the child at home in the world in which lie lived. A child’s mind was not a sack into which to put tilings. The mind of tile learner, whether child or student, would only take in something for which it had to reach out, like the tendril of a vine.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1928, Page 2
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114THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1928, Page 2
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