AVERAGE ENGLISHMEN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 July 1927, Page 3

AVERAGE ENGLISHMEN.

INSTINCT FOR DISCIPLINE.

lAN HAY AND “SUPERB TYPES.”

LONDON, July 5. The first thing that really mattered in a British school was good order and discipline, said Major lan Hay Beith (lan Hay), at the City of London School, where he distributed the Be.aufoy and Mortimer prizes to the boys. Mr. Cecil F. J. Jennings, chairman of the City School Council, presided, supported bv other members 1 , and by the headmaster, Dr. A. Chilton, and Mr. J. R. Palreman, past Chief Commoner.

All the theories in the world,. continued Major Beith, were useless if one could not inculcate in the British boy a certain pride in being kept in order, and later on in keeping himself in order, and later still in keeping other people in order. Those, he said, were the progressive stages through which the manhood of the country' had to pass. . Discipline bred responsibility, responsibility bred character, and, if in a nation like ours, which was responsible, directly or indirectly. for order and good government of nearly one-quarter of the earth’s surface, men were still able, even in these modern days of upheaval, to maintain those traditions with efficiency and credit, he thought they would admit that our British educational system, whatever the outside criticism of it might he, seemed to suit the people that it was intended for. It produced, above all, a superb average type.