NATIONAL DEGENERATION
WORDS TO GREAT BRITAIN. “England needs a real national system of education, a system which would dedicate the national intellect to the solution of social problems forced upon us by years of disorderly,- un-co-ordinated and often undisciplined effort,” asserted Mr W. Barford, in his presidential address at the annual conference of the English National Association of Schoolmasters. Even Oxford, Cambridge and the universities offered little concrete contribution to the problem of disciplined social evolution, he added. Rootlessness and a falling birth-rate had always preceded the downfall of an empire. They were in danger of becoming prisoners of a freedom which had been their boast and pride. “The enemy is not across the water, but in the degeneration of ourselves,” Mr Barford concluded. “We can build the superstructure of the Commonwealth by laying the foundations in the minds of the 5,000,000 children in the primary schools.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1939, Page 3
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147NATIONAL DEGENERATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1939, Page 3
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