CINEMA FILMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1931, Page 3

CINEMA FILMS

; ?r^^^ : ZIEyUiMirDjSOENES.- , '}. t..LONDON', August"'l3. .. jM.A.,./ lieadmasijj?? fA- Buffoi-d Giaipmar School ”, Wore star shire), read his iepqrti’at thetoannfiaf -prize-giving'. 'He n&tde/'special ref erqncps., to, ;the ciiiema ■flow- a featfinto’ of their school life. Throughout both winter terms they hadS;«sekly shoyfs. The programme included of machinery, travel, historyf/an,d industries, ”and some exceptionally’ fine films had been lent by the New, Zealand Government. A great many eminent people were present at the prize-giving, including the Rev. Canon F. Homes Dudden, D.D. (MAs- , tei;.; of Pembroke College), the Rev. <3arionv<W./JEhihris '(chairman "of the 'Governors), and,„G. Hadovv (a member of tHe.j County ‘Education Com- . mittee), 7: ;, ~ -to ilhe ' Vice-Chancellor ,oi . .Oxford UniJv- A .- i ,-t:•! ’r* • '• *.*»• ' • ' veristy- remarked upon the many changes that had occurred everywhere in. recent years, and not the least in education.- Both the idea and the method of education had been altered. The 'jpld idea ;vas to cram knowledge into a' pupil and the old-fashioned method was superlatively -boring; very little attempt was made to arouse the interest .of the scholar. The general result was that the majority of boys l - and . girls conceived and retained through life a holy hatred of school.' . : -All.' this had been changed. The modern idea of education was not so much to infuse knowledge as to develop faculty. Knowledge was not undervalued; f buffl<J'''feno\yijthings* -was not, nearly ’so * important >J as’ "to “develop a capacity .. fori acquiring .-'and-' applying •knowledge, and it was to' that end that .•-niodferfr.education was' mainly directed. The aim was not so much to put knowledge into boys and girls as to put * ...J.. boys - and /girls in the way of gaining and utilising knowledge for themselves —to team them to learn and go 1 on learning, to read and go on reading, to' think and to go on thinking, to develop the power of mind, which could thereafter apply its ability to a great variety of subjects. And just as 'the .-idea'.’hf/education had changed, so also . had the method. 'vifThei’e' )p.s nowadays - a--strong re--1 Action against the dullness and weari-ness"-formerly associated with school 'instruction. The modern method was to . make learning as easy and interesting ;.and.^)luasurable: : \as possible, and sq ;tb :'-engdridfer ':an ejitbusiasm for Intel-.' pur|fcts v'V^i'ch: should ; endure long after the period of schoolroom discipline was over. But there was -a danger that this new method might tend to weaken the student’s will be-

fore tasks which required/ . study and

concentrated ' application.'/ - After all, %S r - e could be no learning without an of ;was not -an nnmixed delight to . acquire a sound knowledge /{of i subjects in a£ literature ■history. , ? t INVOLVES. / ,It 'spite effort to eliminate what was.'.v. difficult and disagreeable from the school curriculum, it still remained the truth that one could not jazz through' education any .more than %■ one cduld jaZz through life. True intellectual discipline, an enduring of v .arduous work. Under the new system, as under the ,old,'' an unvarying condition of progress was diligence, industry, . and honest work. x So many , were apt to fancy that they -tt\ co^ld fcC.?-® not by taking trouble f»them-seryes; bnt by'.'letting others take .on their behalf, and that was bf the devil. Each must WfA mdke hik-own way, each must develop W himself* by his' own effort. .One thing X f about work was eminently satisfrfpfSrjr • almost invariably told in the long ' f run, though not always at school; some natures matured slowly; yet to those who did good work the reward "it-l- ; 'came, if-/not at once at least eventually. It "Came in the form of a well‘i;; furnished, mind, of a quickened s'ensi- ! bility, Of an imagination filled with images of pleasant things,' and of a fine and elevated character, and these . r possessions were worth having ; they . were imperishable goods which could

: fee cOufited on to minister to them con;G v tinpal supplies Of quiet happiness even •% 'ivVK'en "bVery " other source of gratification might have failed.