EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
STRONG CONDEMNATION SUGGESTED REMEDIAL STEP LONDON. Dec. 29 Dissatisfaction with modern education was expressed by Miss Agnes Muir, in her presidential address to the Scottish Education Institution's Congress at Edinburgh. "Power is being glorified in countries dominated by fear." Miss Muir said. "The greatest scientific brains are being devoted to annihilating instead of increasing human happiness. "The heroes the average youth glorifies are boxers, footballers and film stars. The cinema presents patterns of vulgarity, vice and crime instead of enlightenment and education, for which the educational system is blameworthy, because it is turning out people who find pleasure in vulgarity. "The remedy lies in adequate provision for the. mental and spiritual health of young children."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 9
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117EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22615, 31 December 1936, Page 9
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