THE MAIN PURPOSE
BUILDING CHARACTER
THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS
ADVICE TO PARENTS
Advice to parents rather than to the girls was the keynote of the speeches given at the break-up of • Wellington East. Girls' College yesterday afternoon. Mr. L. McKenzie, who presided, appealed to parents to leave their daughters at school as long as possible. Education, he said, was the greatest asset that could be given the children, and it was a pity to pawn their future for the sake of a.few shillings.
The headmistress, Miss Isaac, remarked that the parents need not be disappointed if their daughters' reports were not as good as they might be. Actual marks might mean a lot at school: they meant nothing in after life. The one thing which counted during and after school life was character. The character-training received at school was everything. She appealed to mothers to have sympathy, patience, and understanding with their daughters: to cultivate long memories and to think what they were like when they were girls, and then they would see that, they themselves had not turned out so badly after all. It would be the same with their daughters.
Addressing the girls, the Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) urged those present to cultivate the spirit of cheerfulness, to : meet life with a smile. He also urged them to avoid becoming the type who always criticised everything and pulled it to pieces. They should look for what was best in everything, not ignoring the bad but crushing it, and they should also cultivate the habit of working hard, especially at jobs they did not like. Finally, said the Mayor, they should remember the debt they owed to England. The opportunities which were theirs were theirs only because England to herself was true.
Mrs. P. Fraser presented the prizes and trophies to the winners, and the girls sang several carols between the speeches. In a brief speech Mrs. Fraser appealed to the girls not to despise housework or any work which was socially useful.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 8
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336THE MAIN PURPOSE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 8
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