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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933.
SIR J. REITH ON LACK OF LEADERSHIP
"AVERAGE MAN A POOR SPECIMEN”
"SUNDAY SCHOOL TALK”
ABOUT AMBITION :
Sir John Reith, of the B.R.C., | Dr. Cyril Norwood, Headmastor made some outspoken comments on of Harrow great deal has been modern education, modern parents, done towards helping boys to find and on choosing careers for out what caroure they are fit for children at a luncheon at the and the methods by which they Aldwych Club last month. He can be brought into touch with exaggerated his statemente, hother. I think the majority will sald at the outsot, in order to always be found to be what Sir emphasise the points he wished to John calls modiocrities, and what
make.
I abould call honest mon and, women doing their duty. I should be very sorry to be not deliberate- ly to train boys to be boeses.
He declared that the present luck of leadership, the inferiority complex, Individually and na tionally and the appalling mass of Rov. Ernest G. Draham, General mediocrity, were leading us into secretary, National Sindy School more serious economic trouble Union.-It is obvious that anyone. than we have hitherto known, who knows anything about Sunday schoola to-day would not make any "I am not pessimistic about the such statement. Modern Sunday future of this country, but there schools, rather than crippling and Is decadence, inferiority, and
our
mediocrity rampant all over the crushing the ambition of children land," he continued, "a whole train by a species of repression, doos of misfis in every line of activity, activitica are towards the engen-
exactly the opposite. All and an immense amount of human stering of ambition and leadership. misery or, at any rate, disconteni.
Mr. Bernard Show-Mediocrity "What effort," he asked, "locs will always be rampant. There the average parent make in leading will always be 10 per cent. his boys towards careers? At the
of
age of about 10 a boy can talk with superior people and 90 per cent, of somo intelligence about his likes rag-tag and bobtail. I wish Sir John Reith would do a little more and dialikes, and a parent of some broadcasting himself of that kind Intelligence can get them out of and save us from the appalling him. In a few years a boy can bunk that the B.B.C. la beginning talk of his 'aptitudes and the reverse; Inclinations and dis-to send us over the ether. Inclinations. Two or three years later, round about 16, 1 belleve the Invernge boy can have chosen hin
career.
"If a boy is more or less settled by 16 he has a start of eight to ten years over the other fellow.
CAPACITY FOR WORK.
"The average man, in my view, is a pretty poor specimen, and the average intelligence, in my view, in very low. Is it realised that the first class man can do something like five times the amount of work of the average man? It is largely the product of early training.
"People in need of money will say to a boy leaving school at 18 or 17, 'You must earn money, They try to make him start in any sort of capacity, earning 20s. to 30. a week: The boy stays dead endod. They get that money which they require, and for which they are prepared to sacrifice the
whole future of their son.
"WAR PART OF OUR SYSTEM"
PROFESSOR LOW AND
FORCE
"PEACE HUMBUG"
Professor A. M. Low, speaking at Christ Church, Vistoria-street, London, said that as things were with the general at present, methods of conducting our exig
and unemployment tence, wer were absolutely essential 2%.
"They are the logical results of the present system," he said. "I am not so foolish as to advocate
war, but it is necessary to have
war in nintain the system. I do
not consider that we live in a civi- lised world. We are more civilia- "I conclude that nine 'out of ter parents consciously or uncon-jed in the direction of war than in sciously are disregardful of their any other direction. children's future.
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may have been our better feelings "I left school a bit younger than got the upper hand and we camp I ought to have done. I was put away hungry and ragged with Into engineering. I realised be-none of the goods of the people wo fore I was there many months that were trying to kill. That is I was in the wrong job. For five illogical. It is abaurd to talk of years I had to get up at quarter killing gracefully. In a war the to five every morning and work a only logical courae to pursue in to 60-hour week in a factory. I had kill everyone that you can possibly five years' apprenticeship in loco- motive shops from 1908-1913. I am a tradesman locomotive fitter, and I can claim a market value. That gives me a lot of satisfaction.
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LAZY UNDERGRADUATES.
"Ninety-nine out of 100 people who come down from a University without a degree have done so because they have not the guts or the intelligence to carry the job through.
"There is too much Sunday, school talk about ambition. I maintain that ambition for tho young is worth, as a whole, a good
find."
Ho suggested that the basis of the whole modern system Was force.
"Our one object in life is to go one botter than the man next door and the only logical outcome of that is force. I am not in favour of the peace humbug that nearly every one talks. The police have estab lished themselves entirely by force. People tell us that peace is preserved by the tact, dignity and quickness of the police. In their hearts they know it is not true.
MAJESTY OF THE LAW.
"The police are armed. We don't deal more than many of the things choose our policemen because: they give you in Sunday school. they are good chess players or How many boys cultivate the in-members of a debating society. stinct of the boss?
but, even if they don't carry guns
"If you look around you will or truncheons, their arms and fiata agree that one of our first troubles happen, to be stronger than any la lack of leadership. It is evident, body else's. The majesty of the in overy kind of line-polities and w would not be worth sixpence industry. It can be traced to its if it had not force to carry it Into origin in the nursery or the Sun-effect. day school.
"Most of us base our conditions of ilving on the comical idea that "The first Headmaster who everyone la really kindly. They sets out to capture the leading may be in the spirit, but they are positions in the country for hfa not in their bodily strength. boys will capture them. The boy "The struggle to increase arma- who sets out to attain to a certainment and the increasing struggle position has everything strong in to discover now poison gases for his favour.
the purpose of defence Is
"I do not think you can much in-humbug," said Professor Low. crease a man's intelligence: What we should say is: "We have think a man is either born intelll- got more than most soplo, and gent or unintelligent. Something we are going to keep it." can be done with the unintelligent, "In the next war the word but I doubt if it is very very much.civilian will lose all its meaning
• "If we could deal with this busi- If we try to alter force it might noes in the nursery I believe the mean the martyrdom of a whole country would be hapnior and nation. If we try to cure war, wo better placed in world affairs, and have a binger Job than we imarino Its individuals more contented."
wo shall need a complete change of heart and mind. Se *****"*There are only two alterna- Commments on Sir John Reith's tivos-war and more war, or statements were made as follows: Christianity."
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