SCHOOL OF LIFE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3579, 23 December 1926, Page 4

SCHOOL OF LIFE

GIRLS AND THE FUTURE Some sound advice to girls alionl (o leave school was given by ilie Governor-General, Sir Charles I'ergusson, in an address a I the I rizegiving ceremony of the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School. Addressing those girls who had not gained prizes, His Excellency said that that was good discipline, because failure made them learn their faults and deficiencies and gave them a chance to repair them. They should not he discouraged by failure, because everyone could not be at the top. II: they failed they should try again. “Speaking to those who have finished school and are about to go out into the world, I would like to tell them that after all the wider life to which they are going is only a bigger school,” His Excellency said. “School is only a miniature of life and what you have learned here will be of great value to you in later life.” Apart from their lessons, school bad taught them to understand their fellow creatures, to be unselfish and to work with them. And so in life. Those who had success in life thought of others. One heard a great deal these days of the modern girl thinking of no one but herself, but he was sure their training at school had taught them differently. The girls should remember the “under-dog,” those who had not made a success of life, and try to bring sunshine into their lives. \Vhen they left school whatever they did would be a judgment passed on, the school. Its reputation remained in their hands. Old girls could be a tremendous help to the school. They should revisit it and give the pupils advice and generally uplift the school.