“Vicious Circle”
Adult education in New Zealand is caught in something of a vicious circle, Mr D. G. James, secretary of the National Council of Adult Education, told the annual conference of the New Zealand Workers’ Educational Association in Christchurch on Saturday. Its enemy was what the Duke of Edinburgh had described as the “clockwork mouse” principle: people were wound up at the beginning of their education and let go onto the world—a completely nonsensical state of affairs which was not realised by the bulk of the population, said Mr James. “Until adult education can guarantee that when a person leaves school he will be able to call on a full and efficient adult education system that can offer what he needs where he is, then we can’t counter the tendency to fill people up with education at the start “This encourages the public to be satisfied with what is at present an unsatisfactory situation, because, operating on the clockwork mouse principle, the demand for adult education is not large enough to force the provision of a full system, and there is a constant shortage of funds,” said Mr James.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31731, 15 July 1968, Page 14
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