CONSUL'S ADDRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 4

CONSUL'S ADDRESS

EDUCATION IN POLAND

Faith in the new world order which he believed would be initiated by the English-speaking nations was expressed by Count Wodzicki, the Consul-General for Poland, in an address to members of the New Zealand Federation of University Women. Count Wodzicki detailed the progress of education in his country, from the founding of the monasteries in 966 A.D. to the present day. Quoting from a very complete report he had presented at a conference of teachers and educational administrators from the' Allied countries and held in Oxford, England, in January of this year, the Count described the effects of the occupation of. Poland by Nazi and Soviet forces, and the education of Polish nationals under the two influences. Both, he said, were entirely alien to the liberal and democratic conceptions which were so deeply rooted in the soul of Poland.

The educational policy in Central Poland, as outlined by the general governor of Central Poland, Dr. Frank and operated from the general government at Cracow, aimed at making Poland an intellectual desert. Already science and learning had come to a complete standstill throughout this occupied territory. Count Wodzicki from September to November, 1939. had seen much of that part Of Poland under Soviet occupation, and later, in that part of Poland under German rule, he had been able also to watch an aggressor's methods of education. He was convinced that though the educational programme of the Nazis for Poland aimed at the entire destruction of the Polish people, as a nation, and of their ancient culture, the soul of Poland .would not be destroyed.

Mrs. D..S. Smith presided over the meeting, which was held in the Englishspeaking Union room.

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