NARROW SPECIALISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 10

NARROW SPECIALISTS.

FAULT IN- UNIVERSITY , SYSTEM.

The lack of touch between the university and the community, -the absence.of ideals of culture, and the turning out of narrow-specialists- were some of the defects -in, the university h system,. as» described jby" Mr. A. ~R;„ —ritricanj' an associate' in civil engineering, to the University Commission, at, Wellington. vCornparing 1 the pbpulatiotasy of brother countries and .centres, which Jiaye engineering schools',, Mr.. EntricanUsaid:, "It may be stated without exaggeration that no part of "the"English-speaking world is more deficient in facilities' for higher j engineering education that Nqrthj Island" of ISew Zealaid, and "iriofe. par-,! tieulariy the Auckland . province. -.'.■--. r | "From- the day her enters- a New> Zea-i .larid" i 46uversityySpll(Jge : aintil' the : fday?-he -leaves;- the HE.,.or graduate .receives not] .one/ SiriglelhOlir. of instruction in : the j classics, English composition and litera-ture,;-:rhetoric, economics, or any other! cultural subjects. therefore'sur-1 prising that so few representatives are found in high positions of public esteem and "trrist'or,; is-so deficient in -. well-prjepared technical expositions, The remedy for this' "situation is yery desirable. With -the excep-, tion. of Australia and South Africa, practically all English-speaking; 'universities require instruction" in a : number of cultural': subject's for 'itheviengiheerih'g degree. ( . Many f Engineering' graduates and associates tp ;*h6m"this. matter had been referred are unanimous- in support of-.some, reform;-along the,-lines sujrjgested.'r ': -'-.'■'",..,.".. :'^":