EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
Sir,-Recently you had an article in your paper by a Mrs. Grace Murphy, visitor from U.S.A. One phrase in her article read (apropos of schools in her country) " ... most are very good." The question I would like to ask any U.S.A. citizen is this: Is the high incidence of juvenile delinquency found in
the United States in spite or because of so-called modern methods employed in ‘education, and the almost unlimited self-expression permitted children in their’ country? A well-known man recently’ remarked that what struck him most forcibly in the United States of America was how parents obeyed their children. . Mrs. Murphy feels that our children have not the self-possession and precocity of children of her country. I trust our system of education will for many years consider self-assertion not a very excel-
lent virtue.
STUDENT
(Wanganui).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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140EDUCATION OF CHILDREN New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 5
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