ANSWERS FROM HISTORY
* LESSONS IN A LIBRARY. A plea for less teaching was made recently by Dr Milton James Ferguson. president of the American Library Association and chief librarian of the Brooklyn public library. He called for a system of education which would give the student “a few indispensable rules of travel and then let him, of his own free will, take a far journey in a well-stocked library,” He added: “Probably every situation which has confronted this modern age, every triumph, every crisis, every era of plenty, every period of want, has had its duplication in history, though it has not always been recorded in understandable form. As time goes on and historians more accurately see and record all events touching life, our libraries will contain more completely the answers to the questions which now so hopelessly bedevil our leaders.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1939, Page 8
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