UNIVERSITY WOMEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 9

UNIVERSITY WOMEN

LECTURE ON EDUCATION A meeting of the Auckland Association of the Federation of University Women was held at the Auckland Uni versity College on Sunday evening, Mrs. A. E. Mulgan presiding. The reading of a lecture, “National Prejudice and School Teaching,” delivered originally by Professor Salvemini, at Crosby Hall, London, was the principal business of the evening. Mr. L. A. Mander prefaced the reading of the paper by a few introductory remarks about the lecturer, who, after a brilliant carreer in the chairs of history at the Universities of Messina, Pisa and Florence, was arrested on a charge of anti-Fascist sympathies, and after a lengthy trial, released only as the* result of an amnesty. The lecture, which was read by Mrs. Mulgan, emphasised the difficulty of giving fair consideration to facts which were repugnant to national or individual convictions, and claimed that the schools, particularly those of France, Germany and Italy, did an immense amount of harm to the cause of world peace by teaching history on purely nationalist lines. In the discussion which followed, Mr J. W. Shaw, who, while agreeing with the lecturer in certain respects thought that undue stress was laid on the influence of the schools, and gave his opinion that a solution of present-day world problems could come anly through the fuller and better education of the emotions, perhaps through the medium of music or of art. both of which were intern tiona! in the best sense of their appeal.