“Forcing Beds of Revolutionaries”

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 14

“Forcing Beds of Revolutionaries”

M R A. H. BUSSELL; in Ms presid'einfcial address ito the Latiointa.l Association of Schoolmasters at Souithampton, said that many schoolniaisteus were teaching children the iniev Stability of a social and economic revolution. “The repeated reductions,” Mr 'Bussell isaid, “which have been enfoircgd against us have, brought back again fto the homes of many 'teachers tire bad jdd days when money difficulties embittered life and : stunlted' natures. lam appalled by the ■ fact that hundreds of moil' teachers 1 aTe :

coming *0 the ■conclusion that the present economic system is (tottering to ifb fall, and that they are instilling into the children of the nation that a so-cbi! and economic revolution is iinevitab]?. Do you want the nation’s schools to he forcing bed's of revolutionaries? lb every lesson,, Scripture, history, geography, English and even arithmetic, s | little twist is unconsciously given tfl instruction that cannot easily be eradicated and influences the mind's of tip next generation.” " \ -. ■;