“THE SOCRATIC METHOD.”
GREEK PHILOSOPHER’S ADVICE APPLIED TO EDUCATION. Press Association. WANGANUI, February 24. The annual conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association was opened here this evening under tho presidency of Dr. H. R. Hatherly, of Wanganui. About fortyseven delegates have already arrived, and others are expected to-morrow. ' Tho president’s address was on the subject of the relative value of health and education, and was in the main an able plea for less cram and_ more persuasion, * a material modification of the compulsory provisions of the Education Apt, a substantially reduced and more elastic syllabus, and a wider recognition of tho wisdom of tho advice given by Socrates more than two thousand years ago: “Bring not up your children by compulsion and fear, but by playing and pleasure.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8363, 25 February 1913, Page 7
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