EDUCATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 749, 23 August 1929, Page 4

EDUCATION

: Canon Stresses Basic Values : » NEW LUNCHEON TALKS Educational values were stressed yesterday by Canon Archdall, who addressed a large attendance of members at the first luncheon talk in the new ; Lyceum Club quarters. Mrs. W H. Parkes, who was in the chair, welcomed the guests of honour, Mrs. Holman, of London. Madame Winnie Fraser and Canon and Mrs. Archdall. The canon said that instruction did not necessarily make a cultured race, and there was a general questioning as to whether people were getting the correct value from modern education. A person should be treated as a unity, continued the speaker, and in these days of highly specialised training the problem of unity was enormous. People tended to be very good along their own lines, but had no general standpoint from which to view life. The basic principle of education was to train a person to an appreciation of the paramount things of life—truth, beauty and goodness. A true democratic education gave a nation these three appreciations, the only things that everyone could hold in common. Again, humanism should beat the base of education or culture would be destroyed, said Canon Archdall. Education itself should proceed simultaneously along three main lines of the appreciation of the materia], the social, and the spiritual side of life. It was a mistake to think that physical things had no educational value; the contact with the material things of Nature had a tremendous value, but there was the danger of laying too much stress on this aspect of it, of swinging either to materialism or asceticism. The second great principle of education was to train the person to live in society. This was one of the root difficulties, as there were too many individualists today and not sufficient people imbued with a sense of social loyalry. Lastly, Canon Archdall spoke of the spiritual side of education. Quoting that a purely secular system of education was giving brains to the devil, Canon Archdall said that in his opinion there was no greater cruelty than to cast the younger generation out without the means of finding their way into spiritual life. Children should be taught that they could not think what they liked any more than they could do what they liked, but should be taught to reach true thinkings by a scrupulous accuracy in all things. On the motion of Mrs. Parkes, Canon Archdall was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. SPANISH BEEFSTEAK Cut a round slice of steak one inch thick, place in a shallow dish, add a little water for basting; bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour, basting occasionally; then add a layer of sliced onions. Return to the oven, and bake until the onions are tender (about 20 minutes). Again take it out and place over the onions a layer of sliced tomatoes and seasoning to taste. Bake again, basting occasionally, until the tomatoes are* cooked. Just before serving, sprinkle two tablespoons of grated cheese over it. Just melt in oven and serve hot.