WINNING BY LOSING
A retired business man in Surrey is standing up for .the boy who fails. Ho is Councillor Edgar Dailley, who has unconventional ideas about education. It was he who found the two most public-spirited boys at Barnes Elementary School and cave them a week's holiday at Torquay; and now he is offering a prize to the best loser at Godalniing's County School. "We make a mistake in always giving prizes to the most successful boys," says Councillor Dailley. "The brilliant boy is not always the best boy. I want to encourage the triers, the boys who just miss the prize but go through school life with smiles on their faces." At the next Speech Day the headmaster will announce the name of the boy who has lost most gallantly, and, bo losing, wins Councillor Dailley's prize.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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