SERVICE OF EDUCATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 220, 18 August 1931, Page 9

SERVICE OF EDUCATION.

MR H. E. HOLLAND’S VIEWS. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, Aug. 17. The new school building at Blackball was officially opened by Mr H. E. Hol-land,-M.P., this afternoon. He apologised for the unavoidable absence of the Minister of Education, Hon. H. At more, Air Holland said that every one of the great social services of the Dominion was of extreme ipiportance, but none was greater than the service of education. On every department of human activity, whether political or economic, social or scientific, the education system must have a determining influence. The measure of success or otherwise that would attend every great social experiment and every courageous adventure into realms of law-making would dopend upon whether their standards of knowledge were set on high or low levels. Individually and collectively, the levels of knowledge were determined by the effectiveness of thejir educational institutions, and because an educated citizenship was always a nation’s best asset it was the nation’s duty to see that the widest possible range was given to the work of the educationists.. There would be general aversion to any line of policy that might tend to sacrifice the efficiency of the national system of education to what might be considered the exigencies of the financial situation.