THEORY AND HARD FACT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 1

THEORY AND HARD FACT.

Liv a 'kindergarten, teacher talk on generosity (says an American writer). She had just read a book by a noted educational reformer who believed that children should oe ignorant of money and its value. M Possible, she would banish the thought of money from a child's life - all our business corruptions might bo traced to the inculcation of the value of money in the youthful mind, etc. When she finished a. matron, who had- betrayed signs of disgust, arose and said: — "I suppose if you had a boy who wore out seven pairs, of pants in two months, and went through a pair of fourteen shilling boots in ten days you would think it wrong to give him any idea of the. value of money?" ■.. "Could you not make your boy's trousers of stronger material?" suggested the kindergartner gently. I made them of corduroy, but when he wore a hole in a new pair in one afternoon I laid on a rattan - instead of a" patch." The woman sat down. A pained expression spread over the face of the kindergartrier.