The Teacher’s Task
Sir, —Miss Magill's presidential address to the New Zealand Educational Institute brings an old question into prominence again. Her argument, your leader says, was that narrow nationalism must bo dispelled by the influence of higher motives. Yes. hut when we ask what these higher motives are we get for our answer, beauty, art and some means of self-expression.' Are these motives higher than those at present used? In any ease I venture to think them quite insufficient to change “narrow views of nationalism into international good feeling.” The highest motive of all is God Himself, or, more specifically, the love of God and the fear-of God, and these are two motives that at present are lacking in our educational system. What an argument is here for the introduction of Bible teaching into our schools, and a Chair of Theology into the university!— I am. etc,. F. C. LONG. Karori, May 7.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 11
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