PROMINENT EDUCATIONIST

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 1

PROMINENT EDUCATIONIST

HEW EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP VISITOR One of the delegates to the New Zealand Fellowship Conference in July will be Rektor L. Zilliacus, who will be the only representative from Scandinavia. Rektor' Zilliacus' received his early education . partly ia Sweden, the United States, and Finland, but chiefly' at Bedales School ia England, where he took the higher certificate of the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board. He then continued his studies in Cornell University and in the Engineering School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he his B.Se. During his time at the Institute of Technology he worked with the Boston Northend Settlement, where he was in charge of boys’ clubs. Rektoi* Zilliacus also spent seven years at Bedales as housemaster and senior science master. On returning to Finland he founded an experimental school in Helsingfors* of which he is still head master. This school, known as Tolo Svenska Samskola, caters for children of all ages from about six to 21, and is designed to use freer and better methods. , Rektor Zilliacus has had au extremely varied experience. He hasj visited a great number of schools both in Europe and America, and has served on the editorial boards of several educational publications in Sweden! and Finland. For several years he was vice-president of the Finnish-British Society, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the New. Education Association in Finland, and is its representative on, the International Councl of the New Education Fellowship. He is joint chairman with Dr Carson Ryan of the New Education Fellowship Examinations Commission, and general secretary of the Carnegia Examinations Inquiry in Finland. Ha has been a member of the Executive Board of the New Education Fellowship since its inception, and of tha' Consultative ' Committee before that, and is at present the chairman of tha' Executive Board. Rektor Zilliacus will be accompanied by his wife and family.