MODERN EDUCATION.
Sir,-—So education means to pull something out of a child, much as one pulls the liver out of a fat goose. It meams nothing of the kind. It means to lead a child out of the stage of childhood. Certainly it is a teacher's duty to supplv facts and information, and a child's duty to learn how to use them. Doubtless an appreciation of the higher spheres is excellent. But, if in the ecstatic admiration of a, sunset, one frills into the harbour, and the teacher hw» failed to supply the mundane facts about swimming, to what good ? A sad example of starving the intuition' J.R. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19675, 29 June 1927, Page 14
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