THINKING STRAIGHT
His ideal had been to leach boys to think straight and to inoculate them with the passion to use their thinking instrument to arrive at the truth even when it was likely to be uncomfort* able, said Mr H. N P, Sloman. the retiring headmaster of Tonbridge School at the annual speech day. If every man and woman had to read Plato’s “Apology of Socrates” every year between the ages of 14 and 24 the world would be a different place. The disastrous power of organised lying which was called propaganda and the regimentation of opinion, would be largely counteracted. Passion for truth necessarily involved a respect for the opinions of others engaged on the same quest, though not necessarily agreement with them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23913, 14 September 1939, Page 10
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