THE SEVEN LAMPS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 8

THE SEVEN LAMPS.

“|)r. Randall’s lectures on the Seven Lamps of Education, delightfully illustrated from the life of Winchester College, raises from a new angle the old question as to whether education is an art or a science,” says the “ 'limes Educational Supplement.” “ Dr. Kendall's Seven Lamps are worship, reverence, work and leisure, discipline and obedience, and service. The essence of education is, therefore, such interior ence with the natural, and not at al evil, selfishness of the individual as to enrich the personality with a series ol goals that are outside off, and \et employ, all the forces of self. The object, of education is such a- transformation of self as to bring forth all its potential powers or good ami to eliminate all its potential powers lor evil. Di Ren dall’s Lamps, if considered singly, cannot. achieve such a result. It is the combination only that can give that true white light of which -Shelley speaks:

“ 1 Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, a Until Death tramples it to fragments. —Die, If thou wouldst he with that which thou dost seek.’

“That is as true of the educational death of natural selfishness as of tinphysical death of the body. There is a 1 white radiance ’ which education can give eternally to the personality, and it is fashioned from the combined ligh. of the Seven Lamps.”