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Evening Star, Issue 19442, 28 December 1926, Page 7

“ The end of education all over the world must be to produce _ men and women who can live effectively with others," said Mr Maurice L. Jacks, head master of Mill Hill School, speaking on education as an international force at the London Missionary Society’s businessmen’s lunch at the Memorial Hall, h'arringdon street. A sense of proportion is hourly needed, and a sense of humor, which is the same thing, must be developed. To live with others is a fine art, little understood, as an industrial dispute, wars, divorces, police court cases, and church squabbles tragically show. In the world to-day there are many more “others” than fifty, twenty, or even ten years ago. The conquest of the air and wireless telegraphy have greatly increased our contacts. The family round the hearth has grown to the family round the world. This affects particularly the teaching of history and geography,, and not only our knowledge, but our sympathies, must be widened, so that we can recognise facts and distinguish them from influences. _ Christ taught the value of the individual, not that the individual should become selfish, but that he might share life with his fellows. More and more are religion and education therefore joining hands*