"EDUCATION IN ITS TRUEST SENSE."

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 269, 19 November 1917, Page 15

"EDUCATION IN ITS TRUEST SENSE."

(Notes of an Address Deliver d at Wanganui E. Union.) Miss Cruickshank, M.A., M.Sc., gave a very interesting address on ‘‘Education in Its Truest Sense.” She pointed out that true education was the development of the best in the individual, as well as in Tie nation, and thus resulted .11 a wider knowledge and a better understanding. She referred to the incr ised facilities of modern times, for whereas formerly few could read 01 write, and children early left sehoo 1 , to day all branches of education, right to the highest degr e, are open to all. Provision has been made whereby children to the age of 17 years, at a time when characti r, a> well as the body, were developing, might remain at school. Thus the child is bettor qualified for the batt eof life. The speaker referred to the spread of education in the Middle Ages after the fall of Constantinople, when the scholars travelhd west, bringing the culture of the East to Wt stern lands. She referred to the’widening of the religious, scholastic, and poltf.il outlook, mentioning the work of Dr. Mott in China, and the improved conditions in Japan, where seven thousands of students were at woik in the colleges. Cru’ckshank next noted the improvement in South Africa since England had establish'd self-government, and mentioned toe fact that India, too, was gaining the same privileges. Thus West was blending with the Kn»t, and all were (ailed upon to lir'p in the grand consummation of universal brotherhood. As knowledge s j> wer, so hv the spread of the truer education all m y assist in those things wh'ch work for God, for Home, . nd for Humanity.