MUSIC’S MANY FRIENDS
IMPORTANCE IN EDUCATION Music had few enemies but many friends, said Mr 11. A. L. Fisher, warden of New College Oxford, and former British Minister of Education, in an address in onLdon. Plato was an enemy of music, but he approved of military hands. Cobbett was an enemy of music, but he thought that every mother should be able to sing loud enough to drown Hie screams'of her children. Dr. Inge was ail enemy of music, but his animosity was concentrated oil the music which was played in church, hi bis (Mr Fisher's) own day nothing bad been more remarkable in British national history than the great increase in I lie interest and knowledge of music. lie knew of no school in England and Wales where music did not play an important part in the education given.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20387, 30 December 1937, Page 4
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