THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 17TH," 1991.
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.
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4.5.
"BOWES CASTLE"...
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LLOYD TRIESTINO.
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·BLACK SEA & DANUBE PORTS.
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FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE
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A. PERSIA "....
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2.1.
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BAILINGS PRON RONGKONG SUBIEM TO ALTERATION.
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
AN INSPIRED SPEECH.
Mr. A. Irvine, in the Teachers'. World, has a remarkable and trenchant article, in which he tells of an astounding speech made by a man who never made in speech before. The speaker is one of a company
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of 150 students who had just closed their university and college life, some with honours, and not a fow without Before separating to go into the world, probably never to meet again, they join in a final dinner.
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"Gentlemen," he began, "I never made a speech in my life, sad I don't intend Family, Kowloon, Suitable for 1 oz Bachelors or Married Couple. With or without board.-- to begin now, I have something, to Apply Box C, c/o Daily Press Offiço. however, and in saying it I will follow Luther's threefold rule: Stand up straightly, peak out boldly, and sit
quickly,"
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We are in one of the famous banquet balis of the world. Belshazzar'a hall compared to this was a lodging on the third-floor back. No such art existed in those days as we see around this room. No such viands graced his board. What there was elegant for that day, but we live in another age, an age of art, art craftsmanship and luxury. From the four corners on the earth came the things on this table. From the lowest forms of day labour the highest forms of art,
we have around us samples of at least o hundred forms of human work.
Take this table cloth, to begin with. It is of most exquisite workmanship. It involves wearing-to go no farther back -bleaching, smoothinal and most pleas
designing. It in a damask linen,
ing to the eye. I want to ask you a question; Is there anyone here who knows from personal experience anything about the labour involved? Have any of you. even contributed any labour to the manu facturing of table linent I am serious gentlemen. If any of you have, I would like him to say so." There was absolute silence understand, then," he con tinued, "
that the making of such a thing is beyond your ken.
I MADE IT.".
"Let me draw your attention to the samples of pottery here. Surely the men and women who produce such beautiful things are artists. What a joy it must be for a man to hold such a thing in his hand-complete and say, 'I made it! Many forms of labour are involved here, I also the digging of clay, the carting. fashioning, painting, burning, baking who bas ever touched this form of labour,
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let him answer. No one!
*There are samples of the most ex- quisite, and I know, costly, cut glasa. That also involves much labour and grent art. It is a unique industry, in itself. I will not detail the process; we see the result, but the various forms of labour involved are practically unknown to us would be rather surprised to find a man you who had ever touched this industry at any angle."
In this way he went over the silver, and dwelt rather lengthily on the subject of mining and the life of a miner. Nothing escaped his notice. He drew attention to the carpet, and rugs on, the floor, to the cartains and drapery of the groat win. dows, to the mural decorations, executed by the greatest living mural painter, There was a rich fresco around the root
He called attention to it. When he had gone over mosh of the things in the room
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY in Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday be turned again to the table.
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"There are cut flowers here," he said. "Most of your spout some years in the | study of botany, but I don't think any of you would undertake to give us to com- plete classification of what wo ace and enjoy on the table." There was a dis want to say this: Most of you are destin position to laugh, but he wiped the smile ed to be masters of men. from every face around the table by organise and mobilise their labour, you quietly saving, perhaps you are to be will oversee it. congratulated that you are at an age when a sense of humour covers a multi- tude of sine, but personally I cannot enjoy that which gives me pain.
NON PRODUCERS.
"When you see men around you actually creating beautiful things with their hands, I would like you to remember that it was my opinion that actual labour in tite arts and crafts and industries is an infinitely bobler contribution to the happiness of mankind than clipping coupons and living on the sweat of other men's brows.
I am a representative university man, seriously asking myself and you whether the system wo call education educates." The silence became oppressive. The men It will not come in our day, but the were thinking.
world will ultimately come to understand Perhaps, he continued, “I should that the training of the mind is as necco- have put you more at ease by telling you sary as the training of the body. Why at the beginning that I have never ex-abould it be considered an unthinkablo perienced the joy of fashioning articles thing that a blacksmith or carpenter with my own hands. Nor anything use should need an education 1 Why should ful for that matter. Here we are then, & college men consider it degrading to group of men on whom a university has handle tools and make useful and beauti set its stamp.
We produce nothing we ful things1 cut, we could not even lend a hand in the Why should university perpetuate making of. anything we see around us, such a revolt against Nature in which and truth compels me to venture the the man who does no useful work at all suggestion that in ninety-nine cases out is considered a gentleman, and the creator of a hundred the chief motive of a college of wealth and beautiful things should be education is to escape actual participa considered low casto in Anglo-Saxon tion in just such work an gives or ought civilisation.
to
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give joy to the worker. ecful fune. "I want to point out to you that the
A timekeeper performs n tion, so does a cash register, but the func highest form of culture and reânement tion of education is not to turn out time known to mankind was ultimately asso keepers or cash registers. It has been clated with tools and labour. In order to truly said that if ten Bachelors of Art do that I must present to you a picture, were wrecked in mid-ocean they could not imaginative, but in accord with the facts build a pontoon to save their lives! They of history and experience. would be equally helpless in any oritical He pushed his chair back, and stood emergency where practical knowledge of a few feet from the table. His fo the ordinary things around us was im- betrayed deep emotion. His voice became peratively necessary. A statement of the wonderfully soft and irresistingly ap prchlem is not a solution, and we do not peeling. The college, men had been in- gain much by stating that the system is terested: they were now spellbound. Ho to blame and wo are not.
raised his hand, and went through the
It was a weird act. The silence became oppressive. As if addressing an actual person of flesh and blood, ha continued,
You certainly are not to blame. You motions of drawing aside a curtain.“, aze the victims of whatever-system za Gentleman, he said, may I introduce to have. I cannot say that I am blameless. you a young Galilean who is a master I do not believe that a smattering of builder-Jesus of Nazareth? languages, of mathematics and history is education. I believe the system of cram ming these things to pass an examination is pernicious. So, having been asked for the first time in my life to make an address, I made it an opportunity to enter my protest.-
MASTERS OF MEN
Master, may I ask you, as I asked these young men, whether there is anything in thin-room that you could make with your hands as other men make them 1
There was a pause, a brief moment.or Education is to prepare and equip of an Oriental be went to the end of the two, then with the slow measured stride for the duties and responsibilities of life table, and took the table cloth in hin not to turn cut industrial and com- hand, and made bare the corner and mercial bosses, kaffers, timekeepers and carved oak leg of the great table cash registers. I would hardly be just that position he looked into the faces of fied in taking up your time with these the men and said. The Master/mayu; observations alone. Bo, in addition, I Yes, I could make the table-I am a Car
(Continued at foot of nest column.) pentor 12:
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