INDIGESTIBLE LEARNING.
“There is the danger of information being put before people,” said Sir Richard Livingstone, referring to the recent speech of Mr H. G. Wells on “possibly forced down their throats, which they are not able to digest, and which remains either useless or worse. One sometimes wonders how many people are capable of tbe knowledge which every citizen ought to have. Nature, unfortunately has been very remiss in her mental equipment of most of us. My feeling is that we expect people to learn by the age of twenty-one a great many things they are incapable of learning up to that age, and education will not succeed until we get a state of things in which theory and practice can be intermingled and when wo get a fully developed system of adult education.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 42, 29 November 1937, Page 4
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