FORGOTTEN FACTOR

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 6

FORGOTTEN FACTOR

MODERN EDUCATION THE SPIRITUAL SIDE (Pei Pieas Association) Auckland, .Eeb. 16. ; “We are not producing the personalities to manage the mechanism of modern business,” said Cano,n Ajchdall headmaster of King’s Colleeg in an address to the Auckland •Advertising Club yesterday*. The leaders in business wet - © complaining that the. men coming .into industrial life could not think straight, had no brains* no mental agility were lacking in initiative and imagination.. There was a tendency to half, education; one section of the mind was educated, but tlie other side, (the development of will power and character) was neglected.. Modern education was on its trial, and it was for the; left but factors in education and in business that men were seeking to-day. “The forgotten factor ,in business,” be continued,, “is that business men think they are dealing solely with business forces and not with social relationships and social life, hut if that factor is realised i,n business it will inakp it impossible f.or one man to profit at tli© loss,of another.;' • The left out factor in education was the spiritual one. Educationists were trying to produce a man w,ho would fit into a little niche in

later life, so; that it waa not true to describe that ,sqH of education as broad. "U