HIGHER EDUCATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2661, 1 August 1889, Page 2

HIGHER EDUCATION.

Sik,--I had almost, resolved not to answer "Patriots" last letter, but upon second thoughts I think it is as well it should be answered. " Patriot " says lie has never seen a man who regretted having education. I have met mmy who did; in the Old Country their name is legion. And uo wonder they should regret havin? education. Why, look at clerks, counter salesmen, reduced men of education : are they not to be piticil ? There are hundreds, nay thousands, of educated men acting as clerks at CI per week. Does their thread-bare, genteel clothing make up for the empty lisllyand worse than that hunger is the timid, servile, frightened life they lead in relation with their employers - , and from which an artisan is completely free. -Many, many such educated men have 1 met who envied the artisan with his full belly and above all his independent mind. " Patriot " says in relation to the cost which would be saved by reducing the education system that this saving would all be swallowed up by log rolling and other roguery, and that our politicians would in some way or other have it as plunder. Does not ■' Patriot'' «ee that in s.iving so he is cutting his own ground from under his feet? and is emphatically supporting me in my whole argument from first to last. Who are the logrollers and plunderers and getters-up of bogus ways of earn ing a liv ing ? Who are the men who. to e:un a living, have to lne in soma way or another by their wits? A living which is half dishonest and wholly unmanly, and is in many eases, from its very nature, degrading, and a sapping of all feelings euobling in man. Who are these men? Certain I v they are the equated men. " Patriot'' says 1 would only give man a small smattering of education', which would be an e*'il to him, and that lis# would be much better with no education. Is " I'.'.'riol ' sober when he says til'-,' Is a man educated up to the fourth standard worse than the man who does not Uuow the alphabet'.' O, "Patriot"! why write at all and expo.su your foolishness'; Mr hditor,

"Patriot" is backing out ot his unearned inclement thoughts. Now it is only the town properties who aro to j;ive up the increment. " Patriot " has. like all other humbucr-;, <;'reat and small, an infirmity : that infirmity is defective memory. Do not you and your readies remember his writing about llarapipi, how that if I had land here in Harapipi which was worth now -tJIO per acre, and its original value, brine t l l, that tins iner liiont uf my land, this t:i per acre. sh-uld by ritfht h,: I■.i,t,, the S: ; iV ! .vr-.'ai a.;l; " I'atrioi lum' euearned increment in principle be ;)»,.?>! is V.'vn ■r ujerty and not to country propi'rty, .Surely, " .hitrior," 'iv : ;,r in the, eountiy cannot have frightened you ta sacrilice y.jur piinciple to interest, you enviit surely fiva having dealings with f.irmeis have to forgo and fjivo up your kingdom ; 1 will not believe it ! H.UUriJ'l.