MODERN SCHOOLBOYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 143, 21 May 1925, Page 12

MODERN SCHOOLBOYS.

‘CLEAN AND GENTLEMEN.”

DISCIPLINE AND FREEDOM. AUCKLAND, May 18. “You can rest assured that there is nothing whatever the matter with the boys ot Australia and New Zealand today ; they are difficult to handle t but they are clean and are thorough gentlemen.” This tribute to the schoolboy was paid by Mr H. S. Dettmann, headmaster of the Sydney Grammar School, in an address to over 800 members and guests at the Auckland Orphans’ Club. The schoolboy was o): the stuff that Anzacs were made of, stated Mr Dettmann. He recalled incidents that went to show that the schoolboy had pluck and grit. “I had a boy on the - inat’ and was told ho was no good,” he said. “I gave him a chance and two weeks later that hoy was unflinchingly standing up to a terrible beating m toe ring. Pie had good in him.” They had all read of new ideas and new theories on education. Mr H. G. Weils had advanced new schemes, but be new nothing about education. “Tlie right path to education is the path you yourselves trod.” (Applause.) Mr Dettinan went on to say that discipline was absolutely necessary. Real discipline was not inconsistent with real freedom. Discipline was the guarantor of freedom.

Mr Dettinan concluded by quoting the linos spoken by William Bede Dailey, the Australian poet many years ago. They were applicable, lie said, to any school or to any Orphans’ Club ho knew:—

Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part And bow before the awful will And bear it with an honest heart. Who misses- or who wins the prize, Go, lose or conquer as you can, But if you fall or if you rise > Be each, pray God, a gentleman.