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THE VALUE OF EDUCATION.

THURSDAY,

tiply and divide and the tax-pay~ | ar very Boon inds that he is ex- pected to subsidize recondary as well as elementary schools and to contribute large sums towards SIR WM. HORNELL SPEAKS AT universities. And then the old

ITALIAN CONVENT.

LETTERS TO PRESS,

The Vice-Chancellor

of the

argument is repeated-that educa tion beyond the 3 R's is a luxury for wilch those who want t should be made to pay.

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Back to Fundamentals. When one is hot and bothered- Univernity, Sir William Hernell university teacher must needs, bo au hot and bothered the school and yesterday afternoon presided over the annual distribution of prizes du is to go back to fundamentals. at this moment--tho only thing to to successful pupils of the Canos And I am sion Institute Italian Convent).with me

to ask going

you to boar wille 1 A distinguished gathering was lan

few minutes present, including Bishop Valtorta, lance back to the rent day af Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Lady Ho Athens, when master-minds like those of Aristotle and Plato-minde that saw things clearly and saw thom an a whole-were laying the foundations of the political social and ethical philosophy of the Plato died in Athens In B.C. and

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Rev. Father Joy, having extend. ed a welcome to the visitors on behalf of the Rev. Mother and staff, Baid that it gave them Woat, pleasure in particular to welcome | 347 Sir Willinm Hornell. His pro- amongst other things was tutor to nence at this function provided | Alexander the Grent lived from them with

an opportunity of 384-322 B.C. Had Aristotle

and offering him their congratulations Plate anything to say about educa-sal. To do this is the true func- on the honour recently conferred tion, and has what they said any tion of a system of education. on him in recognition of the relevance to the problema which

The true democratic Ideal in great work he had done for are confronting the world today? that every hoy and girl should be They had great deal to any and

given the chance of developing After thanking Lady Ho Tung, what they said was profoundly re- what is in him or her. The idea Bishop Valtorta, and other donorslevant to the problems of to-day, that it is the duty of the State or of prizes. Father Joy proceeded for what they sald went to the root Government to provide education to read the annual report of the of the matter.

which will lend, irrespective of Headmistress.

Aristotle started to proclaim In concluding, Father Joy said it animal--te.

that man was by nature a social capacity and largely or wholly at the public expense, to certain Hiving creature was not necessary for him to com-1

favoured professions and certain whose development was only ment on the results, achieved in sible as a member of an organiz-upposedly cany and pleasant ways the recent examinations, seeing fed community, a State as he call. of earning a living, is a travesty the many appreciations expresseded it. Now the State to Aristo-

of that iden)-n travesty which is by sympathetic Editors and cor- tie was not a mere fortuitous cal. sterilizing the modern intellect. respondents which had appeared lection of individuals living in a cer

It was

was far more than "The State,"

argued Aria.

A Good Heritage.

in the Press of the Colony. Hetain area. referred to the importance placed this.

Some of us have chances which by the staff na well on cultural tothe, “ans a moral character ex-others do not get, but every school- subjects, such dramatic and music, and added tie plays actly as an individual has and its girl who in here this afternoo

responsibility is like his, if the the future citizen of no mean elly. mony as regards the happy re-object the State sets before it is You are all in receipt of benefits lations and strong bonds subsist- not realized in its citizens it is which came to you without effort ing between the Sisters and their nol realized at all and this object on your part. Do not make the pupils, past and present. He re- is not something indefinite, but fatal mistake of supposing that market. That surely is the best the building up of fixed type of your heritage will necessarily criterion by which to test the character, what Aristotle called continute indefinitely unimpaired value of a school's achievements Ethos Failure to produce this and that it will always be some that it should be a nursery of type of "Ethos" or character is one else's business to see that happiness and high Ideals. By the Inilure of the State, for this your children and their children) that test the Italian Convert must Ethos" is that Hving spirit that after them will enjoy at least as be judged to have reached it keeps the political body healthy good. if not better opportunities. not the 100% passes of the Junior and united. "The greatest of all than those that have come your The whole world pasning Ancl the Senior-something a security." Aristotle wrote, "for the way. near to it as that Incalculable permanence of constitutions" is through a period of acute econo

what

distress; force, the influence

n!! men now neglect, name- mic

difficulties of #lik foni, can reach.”

ly education in accordance with through which they are passing in the world are of no avail, if men old land-marks are the constitution, for the best laws are unsettling the minds of men; are not educated in the spirit of away; new claims are demanding the State. When, therefore, Aris- attention; totle asked himaoif "How shall we ing for recognition. In the gen- make our citizens good men?" oral readjustment which is now he replied without a moment's taking place throughout the world. Sir hesitation, By aducation." To the welfare and development of

him in fact the fundamental pro-nay particular section of the gen blem of politics was one of educn-eral Hongkong community will tion.

A pleating programme of music was contributed by the pupila, and Sir William Hornell then gave away the prizes.

Value of Education. Addressing the gathering, William Hornell said:

First of all let me congratulate the staff and pupils on the suc- ress gaited at the recont local'ex- amination. To have

passed 100% of the girls sent up for the

Modern Distinctions.

Modern education inevitably

the

being swept

bleas are clamour-

depend more and more on its own efforts and its capacity for un- selfishness, We can not all realize the stupendous, though to many.

recent Junior Local Examination dividen itself under many heads plutable, truth that "the pro- is something of which you may primary, higher, technical, or, the vast, tragic,

be justly proud. I am not going

gress of humanity is the Eple of

ennobling, im to disease, this afternoon, the diftific or religious. These distingethi

Home would say, vocational, selon-

lonmortalizing, and all-conquering ficult question of school examina-

ethic of Renunciation." But thera tions are real and can not be ***

due attention in the local news- paper,

ment.

to

woman,

to

Maddalena Di Canossa.

Maddalena di Canoss;"" came of noble family, being a descendent

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tions. This question is receiving ignored but in the controversies is not one of us who is not capa-1 which they give rise it is well just ble of the experience that la un- The Colony of Hongkong is at

because it is hard to remember selfish devotion, in subordinating the moment passing through one that the ultimate subject of all our selfish aims to the good of others, there is joy and peace. of its ever-recurring crises. The cation is a living organism Love is the supreme principle of focal currency has collapsed; the giri or a boy, a man or community generally is hard hit whose vital powera though divi-unity in Nature, for to love is to and many individuals are in a con-sible in thought are really one and become one with another's life.

of expansion or growth, for dition of runsiderable embarrass- undivided: that the vital wants of Love is also the supreme principle the boy, the girl, the man or the inve is to transcend the over-reced- His Excellency the Governor woman. are equally such whethering limits of self. hoa aprinted 21 Retrenchment they be for fresh air or religious Commission and this Commission truth and that the mind will starve is going very carefully into the or degenerate if its natural nourish. whole range of public expenditurement he denied as surely as will It is not likely that education, will the body if its wants are neglecta escape the Commission's scrutinized.

"We would not have our citi- ing eye, uur is there any reason

"grow up why it should. Education is an zen," wrote Pluto, expensive business and the Ste+ amung Images of moral deformity wards who administer this most as in some noxious pasture and upon vital public trust are quite right there to browse and feed ly called from time to time to a day by day, little by little, until a baneful herb and flower count for their stewardships, But the difficulty in that times of they silently gather a mass of cor- stress sometimen lead to

ruption in their own soul." "The the oh- scuring of issues. Doublers ask greatest force." he added "in shap what in sober fact, when the fog ing the lives of men and women of sentiment has been dispelled. is public opinion. Whose voice is this much-boomed education sounding in the Assembly and the readly effeeling? Does I really Law Courts is practically Irresis make men and women happier? tible by the efforts of individuals." lows it make the community rich-The power of evil," he concluded.

only be er? You start with the iden that "ean

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