HARD WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 15

HARD WORK

SECRET OF SUCCESS

PROBLEMS OF YOUTH

Advice to parents and then to the boys was given by Canon Percival James, M.A., at the Wellesley College prize-giving last night. Among all the things which troubled parents, he said, nothing concerned them more than how to provide their boys with the best preparation for the strange, difficult future. Education was the best preparation for the battle of life, but popular education, more widely distributed than ever before, had produced results which if not entirely disappointing were far from satisfactory. In the years ahead educational systems would be in the melting pot. Some people, continued Canon James, gave a wrong derivation to the word "education," attributing to it the meaning of bringing out something within the child. To his mind the word education could only mean nourishment, which was not bringing something out. of but putting something into the child. The president of an American university had said that the child used to sit at the feet of the teacher, but that now the teacher had to sit at the feet of the child. It certainly appeared that many young people were more anxious to teach their elders than to learn and Canon James confessed that he was getting a little tired of listening to what youth thought,, what youth demanded, and what youth would not have. If boys were wise they would take to their hearts the words of the Scriptures, that, a multitude of years should teach wisdom; some day tho young people would have an opinion worth giving. Canon James paid a tribute to the excellence of the training given at Wellesley. College, and he praised the boys' mental and physical development and thoir good manners. The future of the college was well assured. Addressing himself particularly to the boys, Canon James said that to be young was very heaven, and in spite of the difficulties they were wonderful and thrilling days. Young people were going to rebuild the world, in which everything seemed to have fallen. The older ones would do some of tho spadework, but the main work was for the younger people. While the boys were at school was the time for them to prepare themselves. They would never achieve anything really worth doing without regular hard work. That was the one secret of success. Canon James advised the boys not to waste their time, to keep before them the words "Duty, honour, loyalty, and service to God, King, and Country," and to consider the service they rendered to others as the rent they paid for their place in this wonderful land.