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Otago Witness, Issue 4032, 23 June 1931, Page 11

Students are breaking down in health under the strain of “ cramming,” according to a statement made by Professor E. C. C. Baly at a meeting of the London section of the British Association of Chemists. “As a result of research in all parts of the world, the amount of knowledge is increasing at a rate which is truly alarming,” said the professor “ The student has crammed into him an amount of knowledge which is truly unbelievable. The system under which we are living as regards the teaching of students must break down sooner or later. I believe I am now able to see how the system is going to give. The student is beginning to break down in health. The fault lies in the teachers and learned pundits who control things. They have lost their sense of proportion, and they have forgotten the difference between knowledge and wisdom.”