THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2645, 25 June 1889, Page 3

THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

TO TIIK EDITOR. Snt,— It \vns not till Into on Friday morning that I saw the preceding Tuesday's issue (if tho Tiik Waikato Times, and therefore, missed "] larapipiV challenge and the opportunity to reply earlier. Will you now kindly allow me to state that I i;;uinot, for many reasons, accept the same. Ist. I never was a blind advocate of the present system in its entirety. 2nd. That 1 do think the present system unjust to the working man, inasmuch as it does not properly educate his children, and therefore, is unjust, although not in tho perverted sense of Iho term peculiar to "llarapipi." Ui'd. Because I do think that evil will result, not from the more fact that the Htato is seeking to raise the mental condition of the coining people, or in a sense educate Ilium, but simply because it does not do the siiine in a thorough and practical wanner. J f "1 larapipi's '' mental vision were not so oblique, ho would have to take an affirmative position which would be useless oven if 1 had at my disposal tinio and moans, and an inclination to meet such a bucolic j'ombastes FurioKo. Permit me to state tlii.t I think he has miserably failed to answer your several correspondents, and I feol that, if there were a clearly set up case fur discussion between "llarapipi" and mvsclf, 1 could not hope for any good to be derived froni it either to the public or myself, seeing that with ample time for reflection he fails to answer his opponents in j;,, ; p!■,.-■-•, but can only descend to tho low levrl of vituperation and get completely out of his depth, forgetting also that :— " N.-ilun: 1" cadi allots liis proper sphere, Hut Unit forsaken we like comets err: Tuss'il through the void, by some rude shock wen; broken, And all our boasted fire is lost in smoke. 1 am. yours etc. W.O.C.