LEADERS OF OPINION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 14

LEADERS OF OPINION.

HIGH IDEAL FOR TEACHERS (Know Our Own Correspondent.) M’ANGANUI, April 10. Mr F. C. Stuckey, Chief Inspector of Schools, who has been transferred to Dunedin, and Mr R. Ryder, inspector, who is leliring on supeiannuation, were the guests of the teachers of the Wanganui district to day, and each was presented with n locally manufactured travelling rug. Mr Stuckey, in acknowledging the gift, said that teachers should become to a greater extent not only the trainers of youth, but the leaders of opinion. Education should lead the world to a wider understanding ot the other >-hap” in every phase of his physical, mental, and spiritual life. It should combat the selfish materialism of the present day—the desire to benefit at the expense of the other fellow. Mutual help should be the motto of the future. In conclusion, Mr Stuckey eaid, “Remember that human nature i g not static, but dynamis, responding and reacting to many forces, and that you—the teachers—have it in your hands to be the chief factors in strengthening and directing those forces which shall reclaim man and lead him towards the era of peace and brotherhood for which the whole world waits.”