THE BOY OF TO-DAY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5

THE BOY OF TO-DAY

VALUES ALL WRONG

KNOWS GRAMOPHONE RECORDS AND CINEMA STARS.

BUT IGNORANT OF BIRDS. BEASTS AND F,LOWERS. PARENTS BLAMED. LONDON, Jan. 3. '‘The hoy of to-day drives his father to the golf links, beats him at golf and hence is apt .to get values wrong,” said Mr. Maurice Jacks, headmaster of Mill Hill School. This was the outstanding- dictum in a series of educational conferences in London customary every year, which are largely concerned with problems of home iind family life. Air. Jacks expressed the opinion that economic pressure and the housing shortage ■ engineered the motor habit, which filled Britons with restlessness. Wireless and cinemas encouraged mental idleness, and we preferred to have tilings done for as. He added: ‘"Boys know the latest gramophone records, the names and histories of cinema stars, and the titles of the best plays, but thev are in complete ignorance of birds, beasts, and flowers. The education of a hoy should he a partnership between his parents and., the school, but instead the parents are often rivals. It is a pathetic part-of the schoolmaster's work each term to have to undo what the patents have done in the holidays in the belief that they are giving their children a good time. Children are- growing up with most shadowy notions of what respect means”—A. -and N.Z. Cable Assn. : /A 4 g