RIOTING AND IGNORANCE
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I have been directed by the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute to ask. for space in which to Boint the moral- of the recent riots in lunedin and Auckland.. They were in both cases the result of ignorance and lack of restraint—in other words, the result of want-of education. The problem of the uneducated adolescent is one of the major problems of.the present-day. The only way tis,.deal:with:him is.to educate him.. And .y_et the, purblind possessors of wealth in this country are continually saying of the "education vote: "Cut it. down by a million." They are so bbaessed, that they cannot see that the only: Protection against disorder and violence leading to revolution is'more. and.better education.— I am, etc., : '..':■ . . ' ■ H.A. PARKINSON, ■ ■ . ■ -.-■. ' " Secretary,-N.Z.E.I. ,; 16th April. ';\ ;v ■ ■'-.. ~" :'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 91, 18 April 1932, Page 6
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