CONTROL OF EDUCATION
REASONABLE FREEDOM
NEEDED
(By Telegraph.) (Speelal to "The Evening Pert.") CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. There is a very real risk of the whole system of education "coming under the more or less direct control of the Education Department," said the Bey. E. C. Crosse, headmaster of Christ's College, at the prize-giving last night* "•We are threatened with a bureaucratic Government, and if you ask me what this would amount to I would express it in a limerick which a brilliant ecclesiatic wroto to parody the tenets of Calvinism. "There was a young fellow said damn, At least I have learned what I am, ' I'm a creature that moves ! Along predestined grooves, '-' ' Not exactly a bus, but a tram." ■ What was wanted was * school of all types. If they were to do their work prosperously they must have reasonable freedom of control to expand along their | owii lines. Bishop West-Watson, warden of the college, also referred to the danger of standardised education. "It seems too much liko mass production, of which Ford has given us such a; good example," said the Bishop. "Education, is a. spiritual thing which cannot be confined within too narrow Emits;**
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 10
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196CONTROL OF EDUCATION Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 10
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