FAULTY EDUCATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 May 1937, Page 14

FAULTY EDUCATION

GENERATION OF NEUROTICS LONDON. April 3. Mr. T. F. Coade, headmaster of Bryanston School, speaking at an education conference at Somerville College, Oxford, to-day, declared that much of what was called education to-day denied to fundamental human longings adequate satisfaction. The result was that healthy appetites for full human experience tended to become neurotic cravings for mere sensation

“By robbing life of its wonder at school.” he added, “we have created a generation of escapists—people who seek, in football crowds, cinemas, dance halls, cocktail bars, and sometimes even in churches, to slake a thirst, that cannot be satisfied in that way. It can only be satisfied by learning the art of living. “If the spirit of a man wore set truly free," ho continued, “under ihe guidance, and not the dictation, of skilful statesmen, doctors, teachers and parents, it would itself organise and solve the problems of succeeding generations as they arose. “By sending out from our schools millions of children who regard leisure as an escape rather than as a chance to live more fully we are. without. knowing it. turning them into a prey to exponents of mass' appeal, the demagogues, charlatans, megalomaniacs, and nationalists, who uro making Europe into a nightmare."