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Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7240, 27 July 1907, Page 4

, On the subject of technical education iji New Zealand, some very scathing comment was passed the other night in Wellington by Professor Easterfield, who is a believer in German thoroughness in all things, says the Post. "Don't think," said the lecturer, "that if you send said the lecturer, " that* if you send your sons to a technical school to learn chemistry eight hours a week they are going to be able to solve scientific problems or make fortunes in the field of invention. The man who wishes to succeed in science must .work all the day and part of the night. I consider the educational ideas we have in this colony are, very flimsy, just as they are on many other things, for instance, socialism. Ido not object to socialism, but the so-called socialists here are rank individualists. Nearly all discoveries in science have been made by men who were indifferently paid, because they did not seek to enrich themselves, but to add to the store of human knowledge." '