"Daily Mail" Enterprise. HOME LIBRARIES FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 89, 15 March 1902, Page 14

" Daily Mail " Enterprise. HOME LIBRARIES FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

It would be difficult to o\ eu^t nn.it*' the value ot the scivuc the Dailv Mail is doing in the inteicsts of geueial educataon m this colony Vn placing within reach ot even the humbler homes that greatest of ,ill reference libraries the "Encyclopaedia Bntanmca." One of the leading educators of our times lias saad — In this age of specialists when each sepai ate branch of human knowledge is tiaced to the farthest limits that a lifetime of study and investigation, can penetrate time education has come to mean not the storing of one's mind with facts and theories but rather the training of one's- mind to a proper use of the 'tools" of lnfoimation * * • Thetiuh educated man is therefoie. one who knows where to find the answer to even question that ma\ arise in. his daily reading, or in the pursuit of his own' business or profession." If true education consists "not in the storing of one's mind with facts and theories, but ra tiler in the training of one'smind to a proper use of the "tools' of information " then every home which boasts the possession of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" becomes a Universitr for this international standard library of reference is in every truth the epitome of all human knowledge When the "Daily Mail" offers to place this library in any home on the preliminary payment of ss, it is putting within the reach of all the best products of the best minds of our age