MODERNISING EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 8

MODERNISING EDUCATION.

Logicians tell us that most argument! arise from a mi.-use of word*, i.e., tie symbols of thought, are used in one sense,«ni very often misinterpreted in anotiicr. I Ju« l«een writing to the Dominion papers for tiirtr years, and am too old a bird to be. cfu?ta by Mr. Burton".. veil.nl thiiiiMc-ragginj:. Your ctirre»|»ondeiit must l>c a very Kuperaasl thinker if he interpret?- my word> ia tbemUU" l referred t<<. Involution does "explain" li* origin of man. It or no other .srieace pro , fc»*es to explain why man. or anything, enrtfc Involution ami political economy arc tMVgfo in our Universities, and there is no rciWl why they sh.oul<l not !■<• taught in our prim»r£ schools from the third standard upward. ErerC student knows that the history of rivilis»tio> is a history of catastrophic* brought about by weakness and ».reat mind* hV existed at different jH-ritnK Our knowMlp , has increased in a gcometi i«al ratia Scientists Rays Haevkd. arc constantly jettifaJuiK the garbage of our furrfather l . Wβ d° BCft believe the earth is lint, that c«rtJi«piik« V» manifestations of Divine wrath, that epileptics are |io**ei«M-d <>f Ihe devil, and m> on, ai iiiAiiitum. A sixpenny i<vt )««»k <»f to-claf will teach any hum-drum M-tenlM more thw Galileo or AriMolle knew. This fad- Ol course, dues not place ih<- brain of tbo i" ,,,1 ! drum wienlisl on the same level as ti«l °" the>e two great M-icutiM*. 3i ha* l«ng **•* recoj:iiised that tho human race *'«irk«W« instead of gvin« dim-t to all new trnttfc Alas: we are \H influ. n<c.l l.y a lot of V* drivi-1 ~f our" f<>irfathi-i-, as Mr. Burton* letters ami<lv ipi«>\c. .. HKRBKRT MULVIHILL