IMPERIAL IDEALS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 10

IMPERIAL IDEALS

EDUCATION AND TRADE NEW ZEALAND DELEGATION TO VISIT CANADA?; With tire aim of securing a fully, re- ! prescntativc delegation: from New Zea- . • land'to the National Educational Co'nforonco to be hold in Vancouver, in 1929, •. Professor W. IV Osborne, of the .University of Manitoba,. Winnipeg, is now in Wellington on a tour of the educational centres.of the Dominion. He is fully accredited by'the Canadian Gov- ' eminent, ami interviewed the Prime'• Minister (the 'Right Hon. JV Or. Coates) and the Minister of Education (the Hon. ' ft; A. Wright) this morning, but will- bo in a better position to announce the. . success of his mission at the conclusion of his three weeks' tour.' " " "The conference," said Professor ;Osbornc, "aims at the. stimulation of citizens' interest in education, and proving. ■. that it may be possible to utilise the • schools to inculcate Jiigh ideals of. personal conduct 'and business service, do-' monstrat.ing the use that could be made of them in the fashioning of a high na- - tioual mentality. Germany demonstrated the 'disastrous' use that could •' bo made by shaping the national' niciitality s in' terms of brutality, aggression, and domination. '■ v Why should young countries, such as Canada, New Zca*land, and Australia, not say tliat they are. determined, to accomplish Imperial ' success with opposite ideals'? "Wo believe that education tends'to deteriorate when left to itself, and that it requires to be stimulated and toned up by the earnest attention of the.whole mass of citizens, while wo, believe that\ schools are . the place where national character and national ideals can best be formed. This will be the fourth con-' ference that lias been held:'; Inasuiucii as the Vancouver conference Hvill. be hold at Vancouver, which' overlooks/the Pacific, and as we are desirous of widening its British character, .wo'hope',,to '. secure the best possible'delegation from the British Pacific people's" of Australia ' and_ Now Zealand.. I am the bearer" of invitations.from.the Chambers of. Commerce of Vancouver and Victoria indicating their earnest desire that .' wo . should not only have a large'delegation from those countries, but that-it'will be fully representative of their business interests. The Canadian/Council, £ o£Education has no propagandist desires, ■ but it must be apparent to .every, 'lover of the British race that if, these widelysevered '.Dominions. are tobo'- kept" together we.must increasingly make an', effort to understand each ■otherVnieutality, and foster-common'ideals!" Professor Osborne will deliver:..'ad- [ dresses on.various subjects of Imperial ' interest while in Wellington, including' the relationship of the races in Cariada, and the Canadian attitude towards American penetration. He leaves'.Wellington for Dunedin,. and will afterwards visit Christchurch. ' .-•:>■