AN EDUCATIONAL AIM
“What we are aiming at in adult education is to make people have the sense that they are equals of anybody with the exception of those who are ‘the masters of them, that know.’ We may be poorer materially, and live in humble dwellings, but so long as we have some leisure, and know how to* use t, and do use it, we are equals with those who have power, wealfth,, and social iJositijon. After all; it is the eternities which, in the long run, count. There are many people who toil with their hands who prefer to read Plato and Wordsworth to playing football. The advantage of being able to read Plato is that one is a bigger person in consequence. iHow are we to acquire the trained mind in the higher sense? It cannot be done merely by occasional lectures or settlements. It must be done with the hard toil of the spirit and the training like that which men went through who wished to win a race.” —Lord Haldane, on “Adult Education.”
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1577, 22 November 1924, Page 6
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178AN EDUCATIONAL AIM Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1577, 22 November 1924, Page 6
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