THE BOY AND GIRL OF TO-DAY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 301, 14 September 1921, Page 5

THE BOY AND GIRL OF TO-DAY

THEIR OUTLOOK. Is it true\jiat tho younger generation differ appreciably from the. youth of any other .time? asks the "Daily News.” Apparently 'Sir Michael Sadler, of Leeds University, who spoke at Ilklry , Grammar School, considers that tho young men and women of to-<lay represent something entirely new. .We give below some of Sir Michael’s chief points, and also the comments of >i well-known educationist io whom they were submitted; (1) Young’ men and women now talk openly about subjects which in former days were regarded as unsuitable for frank discussion. —Comment: They were quite as frank in Elizabethan days. <2) The novels of to-day are less reserved. —Comment: Less reserved than Fielding.? (3) They have little confidence in the wisdom of the generation that preceded them.—Comment: The young have never bad any confidence in the old. (4) They resent leading strings and blinkers. They want to get their own experience, to see things as they really aro, to tost things for themselves, to be responsible for their own actions.— Comment: Those are ths qualities of youth of all ages.

(5) They wojild- rather learn by their own mistakes than bo immaculate under direction. —Comment: There is nothing new in this. The young have always insisted on making mistakes. Each generation spends most of its time repairing tho errors of the preceding one.

(6) They resent rules and regulations imposed on them, with what they consider insufficient reason, by their elders, —Comment: This, again, is the normal attitude of tho young. You find evidence of it throughout history. "Sir Michael Sadler,” finally <iommoufed th? educationist, “has said a. number of things that might have been said .‘with equal truth at almost any period. "There is nothing new in the attitude of the younger generation. "The only 'new thing is tliat some members of the older generation, aware of the necessity for a new outlook, are slightly more anxious than usual to persuade themselves That (he young really do represent something new.”

Tho following letter has boon addressed Io tho Mayor by the secretary of the Sports Protection League, Mr. It. AV. Sballcrass:—"A/ suggestion has appeared in the local papers that the Lyall Buy Recreation Ground would! be a suitable site for hangar in connection with ihe inter-island aerial service, i While the league doos not wish to prejudice a service so beneficial, wo , would be very sorry if the purpose for which the reserve was created is in any way interfered with. It may' I>e that at the moment the grounds 'cannot be used to their full extent for recreation purposes, hut I have been instructed to say that the league considers that the council should exercise every care in their negotiations with those who desire the grounds for aerial purposes. We do not think that the council should grant any rights which would interfere with the purposes for which the reserve was cr->fod.”

Coinage of silver dollars has been resumed by the United States mint after n lapse of seven years, and the work <»f replacing 279,000,090 standard silver dollars taken from the Treasury during the war to sell to Great Britain lias been begun. Napoleon’s writing table recently brought! the sum of jCOOOO at a London auction sale. His writing case fetched J!930.