SCHOOL LITERATURE
SUPERFIOLA CITIES TENNYSON'S PROPHECY COMES TREE CONDON, Aug. 20. Sir Edmund Qosso, speaking at a luncheon in connection with the City of London vacation course in education, said the other day his granddaughter showed him an examination paper which she and thousands of other girls had to answer. "Though I've been engaged exclusively in the study of English literature for 60 years," he continued, "I could not have passed that paper. I should have been plucked as sure as eggs are eggs." That was because the examiner put in unessential things with which those who were working on the subject day after day never burdened their memory. Sir Edmund admitted that he was a heretic on education. He wanted to know what was the use of it, and what it did for those who received it. instruction was too standardised. Too much attention was paid to superficial things. In his youth English literature was unknown in school curricula. He remembered'Tennyson saying Jo lnm, "As soon as I am dead they will chop me up and feed children on the pieces." _____
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17156, 5 October 1926, Page 7
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