NEW YEAR HONOURS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 53, 5 March 1925, Page 9

NEW YEAR HONOURS

THE,SCHOOLMASTER'S CLAIM. '. , (fROHOHB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 14th January. Why does a schoolmaster's name never appear in any State Honours List?"' This is a question asked by a schoolmaster in a letter to the "Times." Later on he admits that Mr. Frank Milner, of Waitaki Boys' High School, had been the recipient of honours and that his case had inspired the question. "Why does he never receive any State recognition of his work ? Honours lists come and go, but his name is never there yet we are staking the whoie of the future civilisation upon education. In the hands of the teachers lies a very heavy responsibility in the building up of the new world. "It is essential that good men should be attracted into the" profession of teaching, men who can look for the rewards open to the mirr the Army and Navy, in law, in medicine, or in every other 'career ; it must be put on a par with other professions. Yet it is systematically passed over when State honours are awarded. It is true that in the list published there is the name of one school-' - master, but he is in New Zealand. Is the value of education there more highly thought of than it is here?" The correspondent evidently distinguishes between schoolmasters and other leaders oi education, for in the NewYear's list there are knighthoods, for instance, for the London University Pro- i lessor-of Education (Dr. Adams); for, - Professor Biffen, the Cambridge authority on agriculture; for Dr. John Camp- I hell, the Belfast surgeon who also represents Queen's University in the: Parlia-.l menfc of Northern Ireland; for Professor ¥.. G. Hopkins, of Cambridge; for the Principal and A'ice : C'hancellor of the University of St. Andrews; for Sir Ernest Rutherford; and for Mr. H". J. • Waring, the vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons and Vice-Chancellor pf the University of London.