TRAINING LEADERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 82, 6 April 1929, Page 11

TRAINING LEADERS

JAPAN TEACHES LESSON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION The Japanese Government and the Japanese universities can teach our own New Zealand Government and university many lessons,” declared Processor Condliffe at Wellington, reucutlhe Japanese people know that the life of a people lies in its leaders, and the Japanese people are prepared to pay fur training their leaders to thc highest point of efficiency,” he continued. “They ar c prepared to pay, not only for primary education, as we arc, but f as we in New Zealand are not prepared to pay, lor the highest reaches oi university .specialisation. Instead Of a university half-starved like our university here, the Japanese people put ample equipment into uni vers-Jy education, with lhe result that al’r.mtwo or three decades only their universities arc producing scientists who can stand alongside any in thc world. A Japanese scientist 'lied recently search ing in South America for the germ of yellow fever.

“In my department,'” concludes Professor Condliffe, “in pure physics and chemistry, and particularly in metallurgy, they are abreast with thc rest of the world, and when a nation is prepared to du that kind of thing it is a nation to bo reckoned with.