Neglect of Imagination In Education

Grey River Argus, 28 September 1949, Page 7

Neglect of Imagination In Education

LONDON, September 26. "If you have only intellectual training, you produce what is far too common these days—the clever ass,” said Lord Lindsay of Birker, a former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, in an address at Newcastle-under-Lyme, in Staffordshire.

‘‘There are masses and masses of these clever asses about,” said Lord Lindsay. They are a class of peonhwho do not believe in anything that cannot be proved by judgment or statistics. We are living in an unimaginative and materialistic world, and imaginative judgment is being starved. I do not believe it can go on being starved without something happening. Modern educatioin is tending to starve imaginative judgment by giving it too much intellectual training.”