XN000022-1976-02-28 — Page 5

Saturday, February 28, 1976

He said: "As I see it, education means much more than teaching

children to acquire certain skills and to learn certain facts.

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concerned with the whole child his physical, mental and spiritual growth; his feelings; attitudes and relationships; his character and his personality."

Mr. Topley added that education was the sum total of "our learning which in turn is the result of our experience. Experience, in its usually accepted sense, begins at birth and continues throughout life, and it is gained in whatever place we happen to be, and from all the things that we

perceive and the people whom we encounter."

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