Raising the School Age.
TheH.B. Herald allows thore ispV room for reform in the education sys-' temiu tho direction of raising the school age, but when Dr Pollen, a v pensioner paid by tho taxpayers,wants '.,; to know where bootblacks are to come '..%/' from if boys are educated, people who ! V have not got pensions are apt to think '■• bitterly, if justly, of the pensioner. : According to Wellington papers Dr Pollen has been talking like that, and :'■ he needs to be told that there is no ; ; divine institution neiossitating the < existence of bootblaoks ■/rfusJTpetor Pollen and those like hA■■'.:.'■'... In the bad old times, before the: spread of education, a man got into '. a terrible fix for avowing that Provi- ' dence had not sont into the world a class harnessed to be ridden, and . another class booted and spurred to do the riding, but speech is not shaokled now. Some sensible man ought . therefore to toll Dr Pollen that if he is driven to oloanlris ownboots the . : : : ocoupation will be an honest one, and, jl.-; one that many men better than him- '!^J* / self have had to practice. - ':;,'..:
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2958, 24 July 1888, Page 2
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187Raising the School Age. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2958, 24 July 1888, Page 2
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