ROAD TO happiness

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 147, 12 September 1927, Page 13

ROAD TO happiness

a LIBERAL EDUCATION DEAN INGE’S VIEW understand the pleasure be got from food and drink and ,’ ssan d theatres arid other things like j. from religion and philan-Ih.-ophy," S aid £» ean Inge, distributing ,-iies »t the St. Marylebone Grammar j bool speech-day meeting at St. irrylebone Town Hall, “but the idea j a liberal education being an end in is strange to most of them.’’ Some jf tlie Dean’s points were: [be English parent begins to ask: What Is the me of the education you ar* giving my son?” He asks: “What ft of living ate you training him to '"when a boy is approaching Universe- age- he should not be made to load hi/ memory so much as to learn to „„ his brain. The greatest enemy of all to a liberal education is the ingrained contempt for •,-e intellectual life which is generally fe lt in England. \ liberal education is one which has -0 end beyond itself except the enjoy"nt which it necessarily brings. It i» one of the signs that, we are on the right road to anything when a feel- i m of happiness results. Every boy should have an intelligent . V e of his country. I do not know if there are any street Socialists here who ! decry patriotism. t don’t agree with !