ART IN EDUCATION
INFLUENCE OF MUSIC Discussing education, Dr. Cyril Norwood, of St. John's College, Oxford, referred to art and music as subjects as important as anything else, but he did not want to raise a race of art critics. ft was possible to train a generation much quicker to observe and be less tolerant of ugliness than they had been. He doubted if it was true that tho English were an unmusical nation. They were certainly not that in the 17th century. It was in the ]Bth century when music began to be considered effeminate "and the proper business of foreigners." He had sometimes wondered if this was not a byproduct of the staple education in Latin, because the Romans believed that music and art were the business of Greeks and all inferiors, and Jie related a story of how, as late as IH7O, when an objection was made at Harrow to the boys' singing, a compromise was reached by allowing them to sing in Latin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22618, 5 January 1937, Page 11
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