“I believe that education is now of more importance than it has ever been in the past because we can give the rising generation so little,” said Mrs G. E. Mayhew, headmistress of Marsden School, Wellington, at the annual prize-giving. “We cannot secure their future happiness, parents cannot even be assured of their future financial security; therefore it seems to me more important than ever before that we should help them to gain the personal integrity and inner security which shall fortify them against the changes and chances of the future. We dare no longer teach them what to think; therefore we must strive to teach them how to think, and it is this that should be the aim of education.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22774, 27 December 1935, Page 12
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