SCHOOL OF LIFE

Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1927, Page 2

SCHOOL OF LIFE

GIRLS AND THE PUT CPE. Soane sound advice to girls about to leave school ■was given lay the Governor-General, Sir Charles Forgusson, in an address at the prize-giving ceremony of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School. Addressing those girls who had no. gained prizes, His Excellency said that that was good discipline, because failure made them learn their faults and deficiencies, and gave them a chance to repair them. They should not be discouraged by failure, because everyone could not be at the top. If they miled, they should try again. “ Gpeaking-'to those who have finished school and arc about to go out intc the world, 1 would like to tell them rhat after ail the -wider life to which they arc going is only a bigger school," His Excellency 'said. “School is only a miniature of life, and what you have learned here .will be of great value tc you in later li fc." Apart from their lessons, school had taught them to understand their fellow creatures, to be unselfish, and to work with them. And so in life. Those who had success iu life thought of others. One heard a great deal these days of the modern girl thinking of no one but herself, but he was sure their Gaining at school had taughi them differently. The girls should remember the “under dog,” those who had not made a success "of life, and try to bring sunshine into their, lives. When they loft school, whatever they did would be a judgment passed on the school. Its reputation remained in their hands. Old girls could be a tremendous help to the school. They should revisit it and give the pupils advice and generally uplift the school.