THREE GREAT RIGHTS.
“If you ask me,” said Professor 11. J 3. Dixon, of Victoria University, Manchester, in a recent speech, “what conclusion 1 have come to as to iti'C need and the advantage of secondary education to the community, 1 would reply that our higher education is buuncl up with and is essential to the three great rights and corresponding duties of our race:—(l) me right to live; (2) the right and the duty to work, and (73) the right for leisure to think. We all grant the first—the right to live; but to do su we must both work and think. .Mere manual strength ami willingness will not suffice in our crowded wor.d ; we must have skill, organisation, amt the inventive faculty to subdue or control the forces of nature to our needs. Above all, the mind, when trained and sharpened for its day’s work, must -ie tempted by humanity, or our lives will be hardly worth living.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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160THREE GREAT RIGHTS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1929, Page 7
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