HERD MIND
- SINISTER AND TERRIBLE CHALLENGE. Mr H. G. Wells’s statement that “civilisation is a race between education and catastrophe” was described as “arrant nonsense” by Dr. G. F. Morton, headmaster of Leeds Modern School, speaking at Cambridge University. “Education was already in the very grip of one of the things that threatened to destroy civilisation,” Mr Morton stated. “That is the emergence of the herd mind, the most sinister and terrible challenge that has come to our civilisation. Even camping nowadays is herd camping. Even our youth hostels are not the real thing, because after all the movement is nothing more than just another sample of that German genius for organising the herd, and why we want to follow German teaching every time in educational ideals, I do not know. Don’t you think it is we schoolmasters and educational authorities who are doing much to stimulate the herd mind? You have mass examinations. Then we attempt to sweep every boy into games or every boy into the Officers’ Training Corps quite regardless of his natural aptitudes. Public schools are the worst offenders because they try to mould all into the same shape.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 8
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193HERD MIND Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 8
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