PARENTS AND CHILDREN.
Dr. K. E. Kirk, Bishop of Oxford, told parents gathered at Lancing College to learn from their children. “The great danger of the present era is the decline of the perfect-family home,” he said, “the homes where parents and sons really understand one another and where the parents renew their youth with their children with their fresh way of looking at things, and the boys on the other hand growing up learning without fear or criticism from the experience of their parents. I am thinking of giving what I shall call a Provost’s Prize for the least impossible parent,” he went on. “I have moved about schools and universities for the past 30 years, and I have heard from the masters, “The boys are all right, but the parents are quite .impossible.’ A friend of mine, a headmaster, wrote out a report on one of his pupils: ‘Very stupid and obstinate —will make a good parent.’ ”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 87, 22 January 1938, Page 4
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