No Warts
T is no. doubt inevitable that the tribute to the work of Sir Truby King should be wholly adulatory, when it is tied to the Jubilee of the Plunket Society and to a fund-raising campaign. As such, Tomorrow’s Children, was well done, giving a good impression of his personality and the great work he did. But it raised questions in my mind, and possibly in the minds of other listeners, which it would have been better to have faced. It stressed his belief that the application of his principles of child care would empty the mental hospitals. It ignored the obvious fact that this has not happened. Nor did it mention the possibility that a too strict adherence to some of his theories may have increased the risk of mental breakdowns. It did not question, that is, Truby King’s wholly physical concept of health. I don’t believe that the stature of a great man is at all diminished when the progress of his own science supersedes some of his conclusions. Only a person lacking any historical sense could suppose it to be so
diminished, but to ignore the whole matter leaves the field wide open to detractors. (I enjoyed the money-rais-ing on the Tuesday.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 20
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206No Warts New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 20
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