Conclusions Inconclusive
THOUGHT the participants in 2YA’s latest discussion, "What Do We Expect of Our Secondary Schools?" were about as anxious as shadow boxers — to come to grips with their subject. At © the finish each speaker was _ still repeating with variations of pitch and phrasing hig original canon. Mr. Caradus’s line-"If there is anything wrong with our secondary schools-and, mind you, I am not satisfied that there is"’naturally led on to its counter-theme : represented by the two commercial gentlemen, with their refrain "Typists can’t spell." And so back, without elaboration of the response "Need they, or are there more important things to learn?" to Mr. Caradus’s line. When sranted ati opportunity Messrs. Dawson
and Bardsley would duet on Staff Diihculty with the earnestness of pre-war Britannic matrons discussing the Servant Problem, until shepherded back by the conductor chairman to make their contribution to the tutti. Towards the end of the performance loftier notes were ,struck ("Worthy citizens of a sound democracy" was, I think, Mr. Cousins’s phrase), but for all the chair-
man’s bold batonship the odour of sanctity was not quite strong enough to disguise the hint of red herrings. r
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 10
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192Conclusions Inconclusive New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 10
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