New Ideas at School
N the 3YC talks defining the New Education, showing how it works and presenting some of the problems inherent in it, L. V. Bryant combined vision and exactness. If all teachers were guided by the same purposes errors in these new ideas would be _ counterbalanced by the idealism informing them. One of the difficulties the ordinary parent encounters is that of deciding whether certain features of school life and of school children are the product of the "bad" old ideas or the "good" new ones. Who, during writing lessons, taught my child to draw conventionalised symbols of dogs and ducks destructive of that fresh, individual vision which, in the drawing period, is considered the proper basis for artistic activity? Who or what is responsible for the inability of youngsters to see that a certain tidiness and order in their new jobs belongs to the whole of life and can give it an economy which makes for full living. As these and similar questions rose to my mind I felt that the subject needed a lot more air, that a slightly rehearsed panel including sympathetic but critical and inquiring minds would give us all a better understanding and might also reveal places where the philosophy of the New Education might be made even more adequate than it is.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 12
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221New Ideas at School New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 12
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