A CAUSTIC CRITIC.
‘ ‘MISCHIEV OUS PHEN OMEN A.”
WELLS AND DRINK WATER
LONDON, Jan. 3. Lord Gorell, addressing the annual meeting of the Association ot Assistan,. Masters of Secondary Schools, described H. G. Wells and John Drink water as the most mischievous phenomena in the education world. Mr. Drinkwater admitted that he knew little of education, but he dogmatised .upon it. *7 plode the sedulously fostered idea that Mr Wells was an* authority on education. He had seen a programme of educational reform -drawn up by Mr. Wells which was perfectly ridiculous. Mr. Wells, who knew little about education, had written an outline ' of history, in which he scorned Greece; but now he was reinventing ideas as old as Plato. , _ , The matter of Ballicd told Lord Gorell. said the latter, that H.G. "Wells’ “Outline of History” was excellent ■until it dealt with man’s arrival on earth.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1925, Page 7
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146A CAUSTIC CRITIC. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 January 1925, Page 7
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