MUCH CRITICISM

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 20, 23 July 1937, Page 10

MUCH CRITICISM

EDUCATION SYSTEM

CHANGING CONDITIONS

(Special to the "Evening Post.'!) DUNEDIN, This Day. "The young countries have an opportunity of experimenting with educational adaptations for changing society as the issues are simpler and stick out more clearly than in the older countries, where they are often obscured by complexities of tradition and deep underlying prejudices, which parade under the name of Western civilisation," said Dr. E. G. Malherbe, of Pretoria, in a lecture in connection with the New Education Fellowship Conference. "The. adapting and reconstructing of education is in the air. In fact, criticising of education seems of late to have become one of the most favoured forms of indoor sport in New Zealand," said Dr. Malherbe. "Here we had a regular tournament during the past week, almost as great as the Springbok Rugby tour promises to be. A peculiarity of this sport is that it is apparently enjoyed, even by teachers, who are indirectly criticised. They applaud the eloquence of those who condemn the practices of schools, attributing the blame for conditions to the parents, matriculation examination, the Education Department, inspectors, and other teachers. All are experts because they have been to school, just as we are obstetrical experts because we have been born."