THE GREATEST ENEMY
The greatest enemy of liberal educsw tion, Dean Inge alleges, in the * Even-* ing Standard,’ is the ingrained contempt for the intellectual life in Eng-* land. An Englishman, says Bishop Creighton, not only has no ideas; he hates an idea when he needs one.Kingsley’s advice, “Be good,' sweefi maid, and let who will be clever,” has been too often offered to Britannia as an appropriate motto. We think that pluck and luck will always carry ant Englishman through. We repeated that Waterloo was Won on the flaying fields of our public schools, until it became too plain that some more recent battles were lost in the same places. Our countrymen seldom understand the happiness of mental cultivation in and fo? itself. The object of liberal education! is rational enjoyment-—the kind of enjoyment which only an educated martcan feel; and this is a good. It is worth having for its own sake, anti needs no further justification.
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Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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159THE GREATEST ENEMY Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 2
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