SCHOOL MUSICAL COMEDY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 9

SCHOOL MUSICAL COMEDY.

TO THB EDITOR 0» "iHJ PBJSSS." t ® ; M® lfc not time.that a more utiliVlew was taken of the curricu- ^ 00 ! 5 ? The latest fantasia «^, aZe ! fu * lu , SlO ? Q our schools," and lhtif 01113 f ea ' s receiving no Jittle support in some quarters. We learn that Mr R. B. Owen (whose activities as Director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society deserve every praise) intends "interesting himself in. school music"! Surely the average pupil at our schools has little enough time as it is for studies that are likely useful t6 him (or her) in after lite, without having this "last craze thrust into school work. Does music improve our citizens, does it develop thrift, increase production, lessen profiteering, reduce drunkenness, or improve morals? While possessing only a want book learnt knpwledee of the lives of great men during tne past century, the writer is of the opinion that music would have hindered rather than helped the boyhood development of the brains of the world's foremost thinkers. Instead of music, would it not be better to develop some system of instruction in practical, but simple economics. that might increase the growing generation's appreciation of the financial difficulties of moat parents to-day.—Yours, etc., OOMMONSENSE PARENT.