CHRIST'S COLLEGE EDUCATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XII, Issue 712, 3 September 1859, Page 3

CHRIST'S COLLEGE EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the Lytteltan Times, Silt,—l find but little tv reply to iv the letter of " One who has been at the Collesjtf." 1 am quitu aware of the difficulties with which the musters have to contend ; and the point, upon which ho and I should probably be mostly at issue, would he, — What 'allowance is to be made lor these colonial draw bucks ? Even the most liberal allowance, however, will not I think place the College hi a satisfactory position as to the results which it produces. The whole system of teaching appears to me at'the presont time to closely reseiublo certain cowpouad.

"ssuedicines which require to.be well shaken up, and ■Jilie-component-parts intimately blended before^.the >\v-hdle «nn be applied; with -any 'hope of beneficial -. effect. .'So in Christ's Colkge' th« inaLoriuls for 'teaching maybe esV'ollonfc-"; bufifihoy are nllowed Mo settle, or":if from imy cause thoy will not properly blend, -they cannot produce the -intended •effect, ' ■I'have supposed that fho ■'teaching material of -the oollogo -may harmonize, if properly blended, '-but here mag lie the causo of the whole difficulty. ~ There -may be some ingredients of n character so -•antagonistic to*the others ihat an intimate admix■turels:impossi!)le: if this should bo the case, success -cannot-attend the teaching: the objectionable ingredients should'be atonce removed or the instiiution must be expected •to 'labour mfder what at '■bast-can only be considered a questionable reputa- . tion. ' Here, Sir/I leave thb subject. I commend it to * the anxious consideration of the whole governing "body, and1 1 venture to :hope that, collectively, they will give evidence of the same earnestness and • energy of purpose" in the conduct of the affairs of -Christ's Collegers most of them have evinced individually in their private capacities. { I am, Sir, your "obedient servant, A COLONIST. P. S.-^Ono reason I have for not wishing to ■ writo further on the subject is that a person with • whom I am not acquainted has, I am informed, "given himself outas the author-of my'first letter. It was not for the sake of idle talk' or in a spirit of •'mischief that I mooted the subject, butit was witha ' real desire to see the college take the position wbicb, it ought to take, add jwhich I hope it will take in New "Zealand.