PARENTAL DANGERS
"LEAST IMPOSSIBLE" PRIZE
Dr. K. E. Kirk, Bishop of Oxford, told parents gathered at Lancing College to learn from their children. "The great danger of the present era is the decline of the perfect family home," he said, "the homes where parents and sons really understand one another and where the parents renew their youth with their children with their fresh way of looking at things, and the boys on the other hand growing up learning without fear or criticism from the experience of their parents. I am thinking of giving what I shall call a Provost's Prize for the least impossible parent," he went on. "I have moved about schools and universities for-the past thirty years, and I have heard from the masters, 'The boys'''are .all right, but the parents are quite impossible.' A friend of mine, a headmaster, wrote out a report on one of his pupils: 'Very stupid and obstinate — will make a good parent.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 14
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160PARENTAL DANGERS Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 14
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