SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.
CRITICISM BY A BISHOP. COMPETITIONS IN LOW CUNNING. THE FOUNDATION OF CULTURE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrigm (Received June 26, 12 p.m.) LONDON, June 25. Describing school examinations as competitions in low cunning between examiners and examinees, the Bishop of Bradford on Speech Day at St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, congratulated the prize-winners on their ingenuity. “If an examiner can bowl out a boy it is one up to him, but if a boy makes an examiner believe that he knows more than he actually does he scores,” said the Bishop. “The prize-winner is the one with the biggest aptitude for low cunning. A headmaster has to speak of scholastic honours to please the governors and hocus the parents. Three-quarters of what is learned at school is useless. The important thing is not how much information the scholars acquire but whether the school produces that mental zest which Is the foundation of true culture.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20231, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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