EFFICIENT CITIZENS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1460, 7 June 1912, Page 4

EFFICIENT CITIZENS.

: EBUCATION::ni6xr^ •" ; '"' i, -V : (By. : Teiegrapfc^ ■.>. ''.-J;; -V - Auckland; June S.'' . , edncatioir-fronv j •Hie national-, viewpoint was dealt' with in j aii- ihtereUiiigi'liiamicr.r at' tlie'; : University capping/ceremony.- this ,afternoon-. by .'.-.'he Chancellor. (Sir liohert Stout}. ... ''. ■.v..'U. ,,; ;belieyci"f/said > Sir::}.l{oberti?v"that' r.oiie who., c-.ir,- profit'' by. .[ii ; ,\ini versify'.edit-. I 'catio.ffi'shpiild/.b-a'. denied;:.'.that 1 education:. I :Qjiei'eS>ii:e;i. i :inniiy; ;^ riot;,give?, their J children the .opportunity of/the. highest:'! x>'ducati'oi'r:;< .a v fo. t lie in than- to /leave them money. .Our ■young ipeople ougli( lj>,kiioyv somc-lhiHgof: ■pViilds'oplij-.' 'somc-thiiiij;of.'---' anthropology, ;soriiething:-iof,-lustory;--..ifithey were to ;'eflic-ieiit i cit;i2eiisV'-' ; 'aiid'; if., they/...wished "to help'--to. make'their':.country;, great: .jT'io timo'must come.'when in our; social life 'we' -would;-demand : tliatir our. - 'social J .leaders should Ik) aVr'c and educated,men, as we I ■ ar'mentinspiredlwith -a ilove- of their; fel-lbw'men'"'-Thb,;oid'idea that the State had a right.to ask. tliatiis.ablesi youths should get: the: highest education, not for the puv- ■ poSfof. : .'making:moriey.:or making, efficient doctor.--,, or lawyers, or, clergymen,-for engineers,' or farmers,- etc., but for the. pnrp6se;ofU)eing,:cfficient:,citizens' helping .he 'State;---w'ouldvh)iyo;tp.-be. felt by pur. popple. ;'(Applaus6.)-Xs;; : '-' ? '•'•"Some'ofe'om-;'young people, no 'ioubt .m----::'sriirM.'.'witKlove-'of;liiiinanitj', have, volun-. 'tceVed'. to go into, Emissio- fields,.the Pacific Islands,- and: to . China, said Sir Robert Hiout. ."They have'gone■ forth, comfort, or-posi-tion. It is not for- me to criticise', their Views, 01-- to .cavil at, their enthusiasm or itheir-:i6v3. i pf,.; tiheir fellowmen ;:-but ought : we •••not i to'- - look'': for' Situdpnls - dedicating their lives for the .benefit. of- .their own race in Xeiv.Zealand?, We havo-n uch nn-lvisdoin-ar.d. much ignorance in pin- midst, .and tlio cry is. for leaders, for; tcacliers, ,; :for-'g'reat;::str6iit',v unselfish, souls,-.equipped : witli-:tho?!iighcsHlMirmng; knowing scine-■-t;h'no;-of? the .v marvels 'of, the.: universe, .to como lo: our. help: - Japan. luismade that •appeal.'and tho'.'Japanese.iucivatid offi.-cis, not onlv in war, inil ,in uvil.hie, have, shown such 'self-effacement and p:it i 'te?otioriHhat:;^puld;.makeVuS:envious(ofi4heiib,ace.^^ white race; not. equal to thi? branch, o( UkCvoU'ojv^ look to von ' .-Indents toi .-.help• plnuse.V ' I am an optimist. 1 hope and lHlicve. that, wo shall , produce a Ik-.U -race, and that o\ir-:caroer as-a jicoplo-will f-upwai'd-: and ■: onw.a rd,.all you n.ny meet with the hope of the goldon a h i... 1. S d,, then'.indeed will ou;' lutur.j be -Kkrious; t'or.iouv nation will bo v« cd bv wkdom,, by truth, by goodness. - ((.lieers.)