Home Truths
\W ARM Sunday afternoons are not the best times to listen to homiliés, and I must admit to a certain mental drowsiness when I tuned in to Gordon Troup’s talk from 3YA in the Home Truths series. If I say that I found the talk, though thoughtful and carefully delivered, rather too closely-packed for easy listening it will certainly sound like special pleading. But the speaker raised so many important topics in his brief fifteen minutes that the criticism is probably fair. One of the chief difficulties of a radio speaker on serious topics is to learn how to give his audience not only enough time to follow him, but time for the thoughts and mental comments his words provoke. And Mr. Troup was certainly provocative. As a student of languages he holds firmly to the view that, as we speak, so we think, and if a people’s speech and language is harmonious, lucid and well-proportioned, so will be its thought and, ultimately, its civilisation. As you may guess, he did not rate New Zealand very high. But there is a great deal more to be said on this than could be packed into a bare five minutes of a talk. Mr, Troup also needed more time for another topic, on which as University Liaison Officer, ‘he spoke with authority-the shortcomings of our educational system in training our most intelligent pupils, and our chaotic and illogical bursary system.
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 11
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242Home Truths New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 545, 2 December 1949, Page 11
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