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In a review, published in the, Times, of a report by the Adult Education Committee of the Board of Education Lord Eustace Percy, M.P., writes:— The old insistence on “liberal” studies, which hag. rightly characterised the efforts of the Workers' Education As-

sociation, seems now to be expressing itself in a catch-word which tends to dominate educational thinking—the catch-word of “education in the use of leisure.” That catch-word assumes to easily that society will continue, in the future to mochaiulise itself, even more completely than in the past, and that labour will continue to become increasingly specialised. It may well be that what we shall need in the future will be less education in the use of leisure than education in the art of independent livelihood. Needing this, w-e shall have to be specially on our guard against official grant regulations or unofficial syllabuses which draw an out-of-date and artificial distinction between “technical” and liberal” education. The board’s Adult Education Regulations at present apply only to courses of instruction “designed for the liberal education of adults,” and the report notes that “too often courses are put .forward under those regulations - because it is the only way of earning a grant.” We should be on sounder ground if we recognised that one of the main functions of education in the future must be to change the- direction and the character of man’s labour.

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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1933, Page 4

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Untitled Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1933, Page 4

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