Consciousness Of Beauty
Sir,—ln his address to students at the Christehureh Teachers* College, Professor A J. Danks to reported to have said: “The pupils of today were the designers of tomorrow, and national values in aesthetics would be in their hands.” It is to be hoped that the university authorities, who quite frankly, appear to be scarcely aware either of the existence of the primary schools or of their problems, will be sufficiently moved by Professor Danka's comments to exert corrective pressure on senior education planners who provide universities and secondary schools with environments which would not disgrace topline tourist hotels, but are content that the grounds of the primary schools, in which children should first learn to appreciate beauty, resemble, as a rule, only well-kept paddocks. The contrast between primary and secondary school surroundings is now little short of a national disgrace. —Yours, etc., J. F. WILLIAMS. December 8, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30930, 10 December 1965, Page 16
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