A SOLID START

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1931, Page 2

A SOLID START

' 'EDUCATION OF BOYS. -' .‘V j ' ■ ’ . ■ APPEAL TO PARENTS. . AUCKLAND, December 19. C ‘l want .parents and friends , of the eolifcge -in tjiis -time of difficulty to be sternly insistent on and loyal to the full balance .of the education ideal for which the college stands. Let bo one intake the education of his son the first economy. If the standards of motorcars,. social 'entertainment or personal pleasure have to be curtailed, do not yipijr son? »to lose thfeir great cKaihfce of ;getting a right solid start in - life.” ’•These remarks were made by the

Bev. H. K. Archdai'l, headmaster of j King’s College, in the course of his report at the annual presentation of prizes. In expressing satisfaction that the popularity of accrediting as a sub- j stitufe for public examinations was now definitely on the down grade, the' headmaster .said: “I cannot but be saddened at the tendency in New Zealand to rush off to some erankish notion or nostrum as the one thing necessary, the only principle being that we ought to try anything once. There are a good many people who have to eat their words on this matter of accrediting, and it is a little comic to observe that two University professors had to go to England before they reported, against the proposal of accrediting for matriculation. “We, do not belittle learning, or sneer at intellect,” added the headmaster, I “but knowledge to be followed. must be l the sort that makes men wise and not

merely clever. We* link the playing field with character and not morals i with physique, but we. do not propose t to assign primacy to brawn over brain.