TO COMPENSATE FOR WARS RAVAGES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 58, 1 December 1917, Page 12

TO COMPENSATE FOR WARS RAVAGES

ID NOTES.

EDUCATION THE MEANS. Mr. Fisher,.the British Minister of Education, speaking at a prize distribution at Liverpool recently, explained the purpose of the new Education Bill, and said'that we bad overdrawn our account with posterity. War was always a biological crime, and the greatest loss was that of the vigorous men and women who might have been born had it not been for the ■ slaughter of the war. And the worst result of this war would not be the .load of debt or the burden of taxation. It_ would be the loss of future generations. He conceived it to be part of the'duty of this veneration to provide some means of compensating for the great losses which our nation would endure. One of the means by which some slight compensation miaht be provided was bv the creation of a system of education throughout the country which would increase the value of every human unit bv giving every boy and girl the best possible opportunity we could afford and they could absorb. But the education that should be given, if it were to be effective, must be the :education of the whole man, and not entirely a * bookworm education. It must be spiritual, moral,.'intellectual, and physical. (Cheers.) A;good education ought to provide for the whole population an educational imininvum. It should offer a free carepr for. talent. There should be no social'or other obstacles to any young lad rising to a position that suited his capacity. ■(Cheers.) A part of. a good system of public education was to create an aristocracy of. ability. •, _