Prefers Research Into Human Mind

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30393, 18 March 1964, Page 16

Prefers Research Into Human Mind

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, March 17

Research into inner spaces, particularly the minds of children, is much more interesting than investigations of outer space said an American Fulbright lecturer. Dr K \V Taylor, today.

Dr. Taylor arrived in New Zealand yesterday to spend some months with the Adult Education Department of Victoria University. “So much has been discovered about the external universe,” she said, “but we are just beginning to open up the great marvels of the human mind and spirit” Dr. Taylor thinks there is no such thing as a bad child, though there are plenty of children in bad situations reacting in a perfectly normal way.

“Children do not come into the world good or bad, but with certain undeveloped capacities which develop according to. their environment and treatment.

“A favourable environment will bring out the best in a child of limited capabilities, just as a bad environment will hamper a more fortunate child."

Dr. Taylor will lecture in i various parts of the country on child development and parent education, subjects in which she was a pioneer in her own country.