LEARNING TO THINK
"We in educational circles are always declaring that the end of education is to ..teach, people to think for themselves. But can the majority ever do so?" asked Sir Herbert Grierson, Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, in an address. "My experience is that 80 per cent, of a class do not want to think for themselves, or are incapable of doing: so. The man who can does so from the beginning. The majority want to be taught what to think, and the nractices of Communist. Russia and Fascist Italy point to the same conclusion. Men can and must be taught what to think. Freedom of thought and of the press have had a short and precarious history. Men desire to believe: hero-worship is not only an instinct, it is a need of the human spirit." ______________
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 15
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138LEARNING TO THINK Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 15
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