SCHOOL FAILURES HAVE LITTLE CHANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3733, 22 December 1927, Page 3

SCHOOL FAILURES HAVE LITTLE CHANCE.

HEADMASTER’S OPINION. Auckland, Yesterday. “In my.erperience boys have not altered during the past 20 or 30 years'. If anything they are more " keen and more studious, probably on account of greater competition in the world of commence.”

This is the opinion of Mr. W. S. Littlejohn, headmaster of Scotch College, Melbourne, one of the largest secondary schools in the British Empire, who was a passenger from Sydney by the Aorangi today. Mr. Littlejohn who has been living in i Australia for 24 years was formerly headmaster at Nelson Gollege. “I have the greatest respect ana admiration for the New Zealand schoolboy,” stated Mr. Littlejohn. “He is one of the finest chaps that oiie could possibly know. “The standard of learning is just as high as it was 20 years ago,” he declared. “One hears a lot about the irresponsibility of youth. I think most boys have a larger command of money than is good for them. However they are all good fellows, essentially young men, keen and eager to learn. “Life to-day is far more intense than it was 20 years ago and boys realise that if they do not succeed at school they have little chance of succeeding in the university of life.”