’VARSITY “CULTURE.”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 7

’VARSITY “CULTURE.”

PROFESSOR’S ATTACK, j I Position of the W.E.A. London, March 27. “Speaking from personal experience, 1 do not owe any general information v.-’iiich I possess to three years’ study at and 20 years’ teaching in a university.” The “personal experience” is that >f Professor Lancelot Hogben. He was making an at'ack on the “culture” of the universities at a Workers’ Educational Association conference at Bedford during the week-end. Criticising the suggestion ihit the object of the W.E.A. should be to 'make the culture of tli_> universities available to the humbles, workers,” Professor Hogben added: “Culture means the preparation for intelligent citiz nship, equipment for leadership n civic affairs, or enlarged oppor unity for personal enjoyment. “The expensively uneduca ed polit:- ' ci'ans. produced by our universities 1 are th. last persons to help us in i making available the pleniy which ; science can provide for all. 1 “By fearless criticism of the shor - comings of our universities, the W.E.A. can streng.be n the hands of hoss' who realise what the uni-' versifies could do if they undertook tasks worthy of their opportunities.”