EDUCATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 112, 3 December 1908, Page 5

EDUCATION.

The following- extract from J. A. Froude.s "Oceana", is forwarded by a correspondent who presumably finds in it the apt expression of bis own ideas on the subject:--"The English race will grow into a nation in their own houses like forefathers who drew bow at Agincourt or trailed pike in the wars of the Commonwealth; when they own their own acres, raise their own crops, breed their own sheep and cattle, and live out their days with their children and grandchildren around them. Fine men and women are not to be reared in towns, among taverns and theatres and idle clatter of politics. They are Nature's choicest creations and can be produced only on Nature's own conditions; under the free air of heaven, on the green earth amidst woods and waters, and in the wholesome occupation of cultivating the soil. Country children alone can be reared up in simple tastes and habits; can be taught to obey their parents and speak the truth, and work in the working hours, sing and dance when work is over, and end and begin their day with a few words of prayer to their Maker. All this is out of fashion now."