OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4098, 30 December 1887, Page 2

OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

In the course of his address at the distribution of prizes at the Girls' College in Nelson, Judge Broad is reported in the Nelaon Mail to have told the follow* inR story " The other day I was travelling in a train in tho South, and being tired out with a hard day's work, I fell asleep, and was somewhat rudely awakened by the voioe of a rather loudtongued woman, who was talking to her companion, and the first words I heard were ' Dear me 1 Isn't it dreadful to think that all the common people aro coming to the front in our schools ?' This thoroughly aroused me, for I was right glad to hear it, and the thought passed through my mind—CJould there be any stronger praof than this unasked-for evidence of the grand work that is being done by our system of education, whloh refuses to recognise superiority of birth and knows nothing of the gilded priggishness of mere money-bags, but imparts teaohing and training to all alike, and does homage only to the royal power of brains 1 That, I look upon it, is the distinguishing featare of this sohool, wbioh knows no difference of claßß, but throws open its doors to all, and admits of no distinction except that of real merit."