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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1934, Page 4

Vr ■ i|,e annual conference oi National Association of Hood loaohors held at Buxton, England, the presit.en , Mr J J. Biggs, said that no ..intending certain powerful rend* elements lie plainly saw many evidences Of : a [ revived interest in education a 1 of a determination to bring the national consciousness into line with that boneful period which produced toe l'ishei Act The masses of the people had enjoyed a measure of more enlightened education long enough to understand and appreciate the work tlio schools ;W ere doing. Their children were happy

school, and the announcement Of a holiday was not greeted with the wild enthusiasm it received when he was a hoy. The parents had an infinitely truer conception of the value ot education geuciallv, and also ol such modern innovation had gained an extremely'powerfully ally in parents. Education was the only antidote to the machine age. Xu thinking person could view with equanimity the inevitable results ol a system where most of the people were engaged in occupations which asked little or nothing from the mind; and then spent their increasing leisure in equally brainless pursuits. The long continuance of unemployment had forced every right-minded citizen to the conclusion that it was essential to remove the child from the overcrowded labour market. The case for the raising of the school-leaving age was unanswerable.