OVER EDUCATION.
“ORIGINALITY” IN SPELLING. “I have always suffered for being original in my spelling,” said the Ven. Archdeacon J. R. Young at the prize day celebrations of the Wanganui Technical College, qualifying a question as to whether this was an age of over-education. He said that his idea was that the world might be over-educated sprang from an incident at a railway station. He had been entrusted with the consignment of a case of fruit. If they were locally grown, apples were carried at a. cheaper rate. He filled in the consignment notei accordingly, and was horrified to see “an over-educated” porter make a hasty correction in spelling and look at the writer with pity. “The trouble was I had spelt the w,ord grown ‘groan’,” said the Archdeacon (Laughter).
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 3
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