INDIGESTIBLE LEARNING
“There is the danger of information being put before people,’’ said Sir Richard Livingstone, referring to the recent speech of Mr H. G. Wells on education. “ possibl forced down their throats, which they are not able to digest, and which remains either useless or worse One sometimes wonders now many people are capable of the knowledge which every citizen ought to have. Nature, unfortunately, has been very remiss in her mental equipment of most of us My feeling is that we expect people to learn by the age o 21 a great many things they are incapable of 1 earning up to that age, and education will not succeed until we get a state of things ir which theory and practice can be intermingled and when we get a fully developed system of adult education.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23364, 2 December 1937, Page 9
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137INDIGESTIBLE LEARNING Otago Daily Times, Issue 23364, 2 December 1937, Page 9
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