THE UNIVERSITY DEGREE.
“There were days when a degree was a matter of no importance. A man attended the university because he wanted to learn, not because he vished to he decorated. Carlyle did lot trouble to take a degree in Edinburgh University. Sir .Tames Dewar was President of the Royal Institution—one of the successors of Faraday —and liquified air. oxygen and hydro, gen without a degree. But to-day a degree means money. It represent;•V'hb'venu'ut. It is essential to the teacher who will raise himself to a position in a secondary school. And among university instructors it is easy to allow it to become a fetish. The idea that knowledge is .worth having for its own sake tends to pass into the background. AVhcn the vocational conception attacks the Arts Course tor students seeks not to learn all that he may of the Tew subjects in which he is truly interested, but to obtain a qualification which will help him on the ladder to success.”—Principal R. Bruce Taylor in the “ Queen’s Quarterly.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 3
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172THE UNIVERSITY DEGREE. Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 3
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