VALUES IN EDUCATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1941, Page 9

VALUES IN EDUCATION

1 THREE MISTAKES TO AVOID. The educational needs of youth were I surveyed in a recent speech in New f York by Dr Reinhold Shairer, head of the Department of International Studies at London University and formerly director of the Central Office for Student Self-Help <>f al! the German | Universities. "We must avoid three I main mistakes of the past." Dr.j Shairer s;-,d. "We must dissolve youth; unemployment, educational functionsj must be brought bad: to the family.! and spiritual value-, must be part ofj t'ne school ediiciitiori. Europe ht)' - ' taught U.' the J.. .. tron'i effects ofi youth unemployment, y/,- know that millions of bright and tine youth:’. ‘ having wa i’.l- ivd hopelessly through i the dcscr' of idlcnCTx. fear and dosper- | ation. arc mere willing tn .-incept tie brut.J bully as their god. Ediicat<>r. ' mii-.t inti-re? t themselves in thi*. p:- t >b- 1 lout. We have l<-iirned the bitter les- 1 ■"ii?; of the iitih'arian eonceidioti ofi education. If schools are only a plaoj in •; hirh you can buy, for i-.oriu' : of j-.rf cr-Cc. u ticket to a higher-in-j come c1;w:?. learning kv.es its character ' H-dl.md. Denmark mid Britain had already begun to adopt a ;r.<.rr -itu.d -’it'i.iid,- to education and ;stre-.-> ks.’id-' nt-??-, co-ojwr.'it:- s.'i and 'ainids, which! have proved to be i t sitpcrwr to any-; thing the German schools have jiroduc- ( cd. S’udcrt’s who study under n ry? ■' tern where r.jdritmil values ar- ; cd. prove t > >?■,- heroic :r. a cri».i