Educated Citizenship Nation’s Best Asset

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1931, Page 3

Educated Citizenship Nation’s Best Asset

LABOUR LEADER AGAINST VOTE REDUCTION. GEEYMOUTH, Last Night. The new school building at Blackball was officially opened by Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., this afternoon. Apologising for the unavoidable absence of the Minister of Education Mr. Holland said every one of the great social services of the Dominion was of extreme importance but none greater than the service of education. Un every department of human activity whether political or economic, social or scientific, the education sy.-mm must have a determining influence. The measure of success or otherwise mat would attend every great social experiment and every courageous adventure into the realms of lawmaking would depend upon whether their standard of knowledge were set on high or low levels. Individually and collectively the levels of knowledge were aei.

by the effectiveness of their educational institutions, and because an educated citizenship was always the nation’s best asset it was the nation’s duty to see the widest possible range was given to the work of the educationists. To this end there would be a general aversion to any line of policy that might tend to sacrific the efficiency of the national system of education to what might bo considered the exigencies of the financial situation.