Director of Education
HAFTESBURY’S life is of thé kind that gives a méanitig to the word "progress." But once the initial obstacles have been ovéfcomeé, the issues become far less simple: In oné way, the task of the early reformer is simple, since the issues are clear: one is only astonished, now, that people should Mot agree that the employment of children of six at gtuelling labour ig undesirable. Or, in another field it is easy to agree that educatior® should be open to all; but it wil] take more than our time to discover what forms this education should take. In this respect, the programme on George Hogben in We Reap Their Har vest (from '1ZB) made an initial mistake by reviving the bogy of the sadistic Victorian schoolmaster, who is heard browbeating his pupils into a _ recital of (horrors!) the seven-times-table. The fallacy of this sort of thing is that many of us remember grandparents whv weré neither privileged nor browbeaten nor illiterate. But the body of the prosramme, sketching Hogben’s character vo.
and his work as otir first Ditector of Education, produced a very diffetent impréssion, of a man with the combination of knowledge, énthusiast and flair which marks the born educator:
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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