TACT ON SPEECH DAYS
Since "the melancholy spectacle of elderly politicians and service men getting up on speech days to explain that they never won a prize in their lives (thus doing their best to spoil the day for the proud parents of prizewinners) has been noticed in the past, it-seems fair, suggests a .correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian," to remark that the bad habit appears to be less common this summer. It is true that Professor Bragg, at the Leys School, did divulge that*e never learnt any physics at school, but that was merely bound up with his argument that "it does not matter very much what boys are taught so long as they are taught well and work hard and efficiently." That is very different from the "Look at me now and I never won a prize" style of oratory. This may be compared, perhaps, with Melbourne's advice (untaken) to Queen Victoria about her eldest son: "Be not over-solicitous about education; it may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as is expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 69, 19 September 1938, Page 11
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194TACT ON SPEECH DAYS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 69, 19 September 1938, Page 11
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