SCHOOL AND EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 13

SCHOOL AND EMPIRE

TRUSTEES OF TRADITIONS

"Our countries are trustees of great beliefs and traditions of liberty, of toleration, of moderation, and a great responsibility lies upon us to preserve those beliefs and principles which are being trampled underfoot in parts of Europe," said Mr. F. B. Malim, former headmaster of Wellington College, Berkshire, in speaking on Thursday to the Wellington College (New Zealand) Old Boys' Association. Mr. Malim has visited schools in South Africa and Australia, and will visit others in New Zealand. The more important part of his mission in doing so was to explore th. ground with a view to arranging later a regular exchange of masters between English and New Zealand schools. In England, he stated, they were convinced, as were a great many people in New Zealand, too, that the more they could work together 'in education the better would they be equipped to discharge the trust laid upon them to preserve British principles. It would be of great benefit to an English school to have upon its staff one master who knew thoroughly some part of the Empire, and he believed it would be of value also to New Zealand schools to have members of their staffs who had lived and worked in the English schools. There had been a trickle of exchanges between England and New Zealand, but he wished to see machinery created which would permit a regular flow. For that purpose he was discussing the matter with New Zealand headmasters, and hoped that they would be able to work out an acceptable scheme.