New Schools for Old
INCE the "new" education is much discussed today with, so far as one on the side-lines can tell, equal prejudice on both sides, it is good that the topic should be aired on the radio, as in L. V. Bryant’s three talks from 1YC. The last, the only one.I heard, contained a reasonable demonstration that industry and commerce tend, to regard education from too narrow a viewpoint, and presented a case for wider sympathy by the community. Yet I felt that Mr. Bryant impaired his argument by such references as those to "the old regime, when the teacher was the bully and the boss, someone to be feared." This favourite straw-man embodies as lop-sided a view as the opposed generalisation of the tolerant, imperturbable, enlightened "modern", teacher, chockful of understanding, sensitivity and culture. Mr. Bryant’s educational philosophy, rather over-deliberately stated, is one which clearly rests on enthusiasm and experience. But I would regard his definition of a good school as that which "fills youth with security, graciousness and ordered freedom" as woefully incomplete. Could not 1YC now give us a series in which what is good in the "new" education is balanced against what was good (pace Mr. Bryant) in the old?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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206New Schools for Old New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 621, 25 May 1951, Page 11
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