CULTURE OF YOUTH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1940, Page 2

CULTURE OF YOUTH

DENUNCIATION OF NAZI OUTLOOK PRODUCTION OF GLORIFIED HELOTS. REGIMENTATION REJECTED IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 11. Commenting on educational methods in Germany, as revealed at a conference of Essen teachers, the “Manchester Guardian” says: “It is difficult to make free men out of those brought up to see themselves as glorified helots, sworn to the service of the German State and its leader. The Nazis are teaching their children a new morality—one alien to Europe and making its peace impossible. What will be the effect of Nazi education? Nowadays patriotism is not enough, even for aggrandisement. Teaching which tends to despise the intelligent may produce heroes but it does not make the type of mind useful in war, which becomes more and more an intellectual thing.” The British attitude to youth training was summed up recently by an account by Mr Kenneth Lindsay, of the National Youth Committee, which, is designed to develop the all-round functions of voluntary youth organisations. “We shall never have a regimented scheme in this country.” he declared, “but the Government will assist every bona-fide youth organisation without impairing its independence and will further all youth activities, cultural and recreational, as well as those tending to promote physical fitness.”