YOUTH’S RESTLESS URGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 6

YOUTH’S RESTLESS URGE

] L I. -rowing pains of youth are constantly mistaken for new i mas. Jt is not easy to understand why it is that each generation should, appear to have to Jive over again in its earliest .'ears, just the same experiences as those which have gone belore. said Professor Nicholas .Murray Butler, in an address delivered jit the opening of the 182nd year of Columbia Univer- ’ ” llc would think that experience and habit might leave their mark upon ambitious and eager youth, and that it would be able to begin at a point near that at which the older generation had left off: but such is not the ease. Over and over " IP human race, in its successive generations, goes through the same impatience, the same restlessness, the same reliance to authority, and the same vague hankering after untested novelties and discredited antiquities which have been cliaraetenstie of youth from the beginning. The chief educational instrumentality should always be the family. If parents ' o no t themselves instruct, guide, shape and discipline their ehildren. education in any true sense becomes almost impossible the school itself, however important, is and always should be a subordinate and co-operating educational agency. If it supports and strengthens the influence of the family, well and good Il d combats that influence, disaster waits just around the corner.