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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18617, 12 July 1930, Page 15

The London “Spectator” contains a complimentary review of Professor J. B. Condliffe's “New Zealand in the Making.” It describes Professor Condliffe’s short history of New Zealand as one of the most useful text-books on the Dominion, but that this new work will have an even greater reputation. “Not the least important of Professor Condliffe’s chapters,” the reviewer further says, “is that in which he criticises education. He finds that the high standard of well-being is matched by a high level of instruction, but he complains that education in the best sense of the word is not really understood. Education there, he says, is no more than that kind of instruction which insists on accuracy in detail and gives its reward to a slavish traditionalism. It does not foster the power of independent thinking or intellectual enthusiasm. This is an accusation very plainly made, which New Zealand will have to meet.”