WORLD IN 100 YEARS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 101, 23 January 1936, Page 3

WORLD IN 100 YEARS

Schoolteacher’s Forecast A picture of t'he world 100 years bonce whs drawn by Captain D. G. Griffith iu his presidential address recently to the London Head Teachers’ Association. It would, he said, bo a place m which the economic problem had been solved, in which the vast resources now allotted to military purposes would be available for saving and preparing the young for living, and in which the population of Great Britain would be much smaller than it is now. Captain Griffith thinks that if will be inevitable that with a smaller number of births a scientific rather than a sentimental point of view will prevail. The quality of the human species will rcce've as much attention oilgenically as is now devoted to the quality of (locks and herds, pct dogs, and cage birds.

“But the traditional purpose of mapkind, the struggle for existence, will be removed,” be added, “and there is

the possibility of a breakdown—a sort of nervous breakdown —which is common enough nowadays in England and the United States among the wives of the well-to-do classes, those unfortunate women who have been deprived of their traditional tasks and occupations.”

It was the great task of those engaged in education now, as it would be 100 years hence, to furnish the mental and moral background so that the new leisured class would spend its time, when not engaged in the necessary work for livelihood, pursuing what was really worth while. Captain Griffith prophesied that the onlv places considered fit for the education of the youth of the country 100 years hence would be the green beds outside the industrial areas.