UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Sir,-C. G. Wilson says, "Education for the majority ceases too soon." There is another point of view. All life is education, and to me it is pitiful that we send boys and girls to school, secondary school, training college and university, and then forth to teach, totally uneducated as far as real practical, everyday living is concerned. They have never been away from school; and one has only to see the average school-
master, especially in contact with men of other callings, to realise how hopelessly "un-grown-up" he is. What is needed, I think, is a definite break of say two years between secondary school and training college or university, in which students would live preferably in the country, undertaking manual work. There, their real education would go on, with infinite benefit to « subsequent university course in teaching. Probably all university students would benefit greatly by the same treat-
ment.
H.
SHAW
(Eskdale). .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 360, 17 May 1946, Page 23
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