HIGHER EDUCATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43114, 16 July 1907, Page 4

HIGHER EDUCATION.

Dr. Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Stanford University, California-, delivering an address in Auckland on “The call of the twentieth century,” said the time Avould come, and Avas coming noAV, Avhen New Zea-

land Avould give 20 to 30 times the money it now spent on education. If there Ava-s nothing- on earth worth Avhile for them, to do they should get under it,, and help to inspire the cabbages. Whoever was not Avell employed counted as an idle man, and an idle man avus worse than no man at all. A generous education should be the birth right of every young man, and young Avoman in a self-governing community. They wanted a university training that Avould fit them for the things they were going to do. The watchword of the present day university training avus not “culture," but. “effectiveness..” A man Avith that training would save ten years of his time. The primary schools Avould never be adequate until they had the university draaving them on. The tAvontieth century demanded men of character. The day of the smart “wire pulling” man Avas past in a. selfgoverning country. Such a man was bound to fail if he only lived long enough. The twentieth century was also going to demand a loyal man. A man’s duty Avas to look after his employer's interests. If he could not do that he should hire himself out to someone else, or go into business on his oAvn account. The tAvontieth century also demanded a cheerful, hopeful man.