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OXFORD MIGHT BE

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MR. SHAW ON "DAMAGE TO

THE INTELLECT."

SAILORS MANNERS.

There is nothing of which I' am more deeply convinced than' that University education is destroying civilisation," declared. Mr. Bernard Shaw, recently

He vigorously attacked the University system when he open- edu residential hostel at Ply mouth which has been presented to the University Collage of the South-West by Lord Astor.

"Some centuries past," he said, "Univeralty education has been making decent government and life for the people impossible.

"Yet there Is one side o! University life which one must, on the result, recognise. There are two classes of men in this country who have good social manders-University men and

sailors.

"Sailors' manners aro far. the better of the two, because they the educational have escaped

part of the business-(laughter). but in their general social tone,

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"It is evident that a University man, by being at a University, sustains the very gravest damage to his intellect. He comes out almost incapable of original thought. I have had to work a good deal with University men.

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"When everything appears to be plain gailing you get up against chunks of something very much worde than

In the ignorance University man's mind."

Mr. Shaw compared the tellectual capabilities of Univer- sity men with. those of sailors, and asked why it was that the University man appeared to very great advantage in spite of "this injury to his mind"?

Communal Life.

The reason is that, like sailors, ho has lived the, communal life. Accordingly, I do not, want to abolish University life because I think the hostel side of it is the promising side.

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"I am here to open a hostel. If you had asked me to open school I might have locked the door and thrown the key into the porch.

"There is a great deal. in University teaching, largely on the technical side, which really falsified. cannot be seriously There is a great deal done with the best will in the world to form the ebaracters of people in universities.

"That is disastrous because our universities generally try to produce an unsocial type of character."

When they overcame their first natural repugnance to the word university, he went on, they had to dream it might be possible to produce a perfectly genuine type of education.

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ia to "The first thing to do decentralize education. Let no citizen of Plymouth, or anywhere else, be persuaded to send his sons to Oxford or Cambridge.

"The thing to do with these unvenerable institutions, in apite of the beauty of their buildings, isto raze them to the ground and sow the foundations with salt, There are several public schools generally regarded as nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge; and they might share the same fate.

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"Thank goodness," she said, Mr. Shaw, was more than Mr. Shaw will never get into the the most notorious woman in the House of Commons would like to House of Commons."

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knock them down, use them with such a notorious man as asylums for the mentally defective. You must replace them by local universities. With many of the local universities you lose Oxford and Cambridge 'tone.'

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London Excepted. Oxford and Cambridge may think that a defect, but matter of fact. It is one of the great qualities of the local universities. You may become in time in local universities Inde- pendent of the University of London."

The University of London was a remarkable institution, but that wns because London was "no- where" and it had no local character or local patriotism, for

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