BIG CONTRAST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10783, 2 January 1929, Page 2

BIG CONTRAST

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TEACH. YORK. Oct, 13. Dr. Lang, Archbishop of York and Archbishop designate of Canterbury, speaking at a conference at York yesterday, to consider the question of broadcasting and adult education, said: “Let jazz hands play on the wireless. Bv contrast let people heai the very greatest and best music in the world. You will never lilt people out of vulgarity by denouncing them. The educational value of entertainment is that it teaches In contrast. The real test of education is how people use their leisure. The business of education is not- ato enable- people to get oil, not to enable people to: get on to do with themselves when they, are getting on. I do not how the knee before the magnificence of a university degree. I have; special; reason for knowing how easily that eminence can he achieved. It Is; only a certain capacity of memory and reading, and of no' particular good whatever ” Advocating a general type of broadcast education, Sir J. Rleith, Director-General ot the 8.8. C., said: ‘lf a man is capable of leaving waste (paper* on the public footways, ho is ignorant, uneducated and a pestilence. I would like to see broadcasting more extensively used in the education of that general type.” . The conference: passed _ a resolution welcoming the decision of the 8.8. C. to set up a central council for broadcast adult education and urged fho early establishment fori the purpose, of area councils in the north of England,