LIFE'S JOYS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 6

LIFE'S JOYS

NECESSITY OF EDUCATION ENJOYMENT OF LEISURE NEED TOR WISDOM AND EDUCATION DR. McILRAITH’S VIEWS “It is a wise person who knows how to enjoy his leisure hours and make the best of them,” declared Dr. J. W. McIlraith, Chief Inspector of Schools, in an address at Brunswick on Tuesday night. “People,” he said, “have to be educated to be able to enjoy leisure. “We have the radio,” he said. “The radio presupposes that the lis-tener-in is educated to it. Some people can appreciate one kind of music and others another; to some people classic, music is obnoxious but they lack education in the arts and beauties of music. The radio can give us the world’s best, music if we are only capable of appreciating it or profiting by it. “The world’s libraries, too, can give us the finest literature in the world if we are capable of rising above just detective stories. It ie i only training that can give us that • fine appreciation of literature. The world’s stores are simply full of beautiful things if we have the education necessary to appreciate them.”