EDUCATED AND UNEDUCATED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9325, 30 March 1889, Page 3

EDUCATED AND UNEDUCATED.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, Your leader of Tuesday reminds me of a discussion I heard in the Auckland Provincial Council twenty years ago, when Mr. Thomas Russell moved that £2000 be apportioned to education. Mr. Rowe opposed, and said he would rather see the £2000 devoted to public works. Tho concluding speech of the evening was thafe-of Mr. Buckland, senr., who also opposed, and said that " tho most intelligent men he met were entirely uneducated." His speech, however, did not please Mr. Swanson sitting beside him, who, on rising to go, soid, " Man, Buckland, I'm ashamed of you," As you say, we do "misuse the term education." Fifty years ago we could speak of the educated and the uneducated.; we must now call a person who haa been at a primary school educated f a person who has been at a secondary school, or a grammar or high! school, would be more educated, or, as wo would say of them, they had received a superior education. Those who had been at a University, and had or had not obtained a 8.A., M.A., or LL.D., would be called highly educated, and then there is a numerous class of self-educated people who may be described as belonging to either o£ the three classes, and, when superior to the third, as most highly educated, bub these would generally be people of great natural, abilities.—l am, etc., A.T.