ART AND CRAFT IN LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 78, 29 September 1934, Page 21

ART AND CRAFT IN LIFE

In opening the Glamorgan Summer School, Dr. Georg© H. Green, of University College, Aberystwyth, took as Ms subject, ('Art and Craft in Life and Education." He said that in the changed world of today increasing attention would have to be devoted to the education of the people in the Tight use of leisure. Arts and crafts demanded an essential place in the curriculum, as they related activity to tho inner urge to create. People would spend their increasing leisure in various ways. At present in the vast majority of cases they depended on various forms of relaxation, provided by persons and agencies outside themselves. Horse racing was an unproductive method of self-expression, but it was not surprising to see people who led humdrum lives in the great industrial areas turning their thoughts to open spaces, where beautiful animals competed for a prize. Betting, if regarded as a social evil, could not be dealt with by simply] making it illegal. It might be possible in the futuro to devise a means of self-expression so interesting and absorbing that by the side of it betting would appear uninteresting and futile. People who were driven into unprofitable and foolish ways of killing time had never been educated for life; in thq business of educating the masses in "the future, if they probed deeply enough, they would probably find _ a very substantial reason for devoting considerable attention to arts and crafts.