A Good Fight
V ITH two definitely opposed speakers in the 4YA discussion on "The Place of Private Schools in New Zealand Education" it might have been thought that the session would develop into a verbal fight or lose interest through unbending dogmatism. Neither of these things happened. The advocate of free secular State education admitted that private schools have advantages, the advocate of the private school admitted that he could do with more State-provided equipment. But on certain points I was pleased to hear that neither speaker would yield, each being p6litely but firmly unshakable. One stressed the necessity for religious training in schools, the other stressed the need for all education to be free. I don’t mean that I agreed with all points so stressed, but there is: no interest for listeners in a discussion "in which both sides are too gentlemanly to disagree openly. A
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 11
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148A Good Fight New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 11
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