READY-MADE ATTITUDES
SETTLED down to listen to the BBC documentary "Forenoon" with professional interest, to compare notes with BBC script-writers on "the ancient tug-of-war between teachers and taught.’ The resemblance was disappointingly faint. There was plenty of wit at the expense of pupils, but it was all the polysyllabic kind that grows tiresome quickly. The narrator's view of education was sound and tolerant, but he was a voice crying in a wilderness of spare-the-rod blimps, a set of queers that our boys would dismiss as "crusty." And what a headmaster! A man who used his tactics to counteract the spread of comics in his school would not be fit to run a bun-fight. , No! This was not a real school, but a set of attitudes based on the "Magnet" and "Gem" with perhaps a dash of "Stalky and Co." Boys are not all potential delinquents, nor are their classrooms for ever ringing with masters’ witticisms and pupils’ counterfeited glee. The layman is always eager to seize upon ready-
made attitudes. What a pity the BBC panders to him in "Forenoon."
A.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 11
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219READY-MADE ATTITUDES New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 11
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