“Well Done, Mr. Stevens!”

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 13

“Well Done, Mr. Stevens!”

Sir,—-May 1 congratulate Mr. Stevens, the headmaster of Wellesley School, on his sneech of last night. What a contrast to the sob stuff ami sentimental hypocrisy that is generally poured out for the consumption ot New Zealanders at this time of the year. We who have known what it is to have been young an d foolish have the advantage over youth in that we also know what it means to be old and experienced. "What sense is there,” says Mr. Stevens, "in training tl)e child for individualism if he is to'live under collectivism.” He points out that it was with glib talk ol freedom that Communism, Nazism and Fascism arose. He points out also that many of our school teachers leave, the universities with Communistic views which they did not always keep to themselves in the classroom. _ He tells us the young people of today think too little and talk too much. How true! He also says the boy who has most to say generally has the least reason for speaking. M ell done, Mr. Stevens. —I am, etc., NEW ZEALANDER. December 15.