EDUCATION IN BRITAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18704, 2 August 1932, Page 9

EDUCATION IN BRITAIN.

“THE MODERN WAY.” The Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. Dr. Holmes Duddcn, giving the Speech Day address at Queen Anne’s School, Reading, said that Liie oldfashioned method of cramming a child witli miscellaneous information was •superlatively boring, and hoys and girls ■conceived and retained through it a hatred of their schools. It. was rather a remarkable fact in Shakespeare there were 13 passages referring to the weariness and disgust experienced by scholars, while, so fains he knew, there was not a single passage which described a school as at ail -a tolerable place. The modern method was to use every kind of device to make learning as easy, interesting and pleasurable as possible, and -so engender an enthu- J slasru for intellectual pursuits which \ would endure long after classroom dis- j (cipiine was over. In spite oi every : effort to eliminate what was disagree- i able from the class room, it remained true that one could not jazz through education any more Ilian one could jazz through life. Under the new system, as under t lie old, the unvarying condition of proj.rp'SK was diligence and industry and honest work.