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Gentlemen:
It goes against the grain, as the saying is, to hear. in the Hous of Commons hints, if not accusa- tions, that men in high places have used the knowledge gained from onice to better their conditions financially. We refer to the ques tions and allegations of members though not necessarily unfruitful, thought, and domand more time, respecting the personal interest of and In spite of the danger of hav-The Greeks, in whom was realised members of the International Tin ing imputed to me a concealed for two centuries the most perfect sometimes to balance and the greatest in Committee In commodities such as militarism 1 like tin and shellac. The Secretary think of the work of organising tellectual capacity that the world of State for the Colonies, Sir Philip the whole nation for the business has seen, divided their education Cunliffe-lister, stoutly
lato gymnastics and music: they defended of lifo as for a campaign.
#ad the good name of those men who At the present moment, using knew what their end was,
are they took the appropriate means. control, to a great extent, the figures which though rough
They did not blunder, as we do, destinies of tin. He admitted that accurate enough, there ar advisers of the International Tin million children whose education and enter upon a course of educa Commlites were buaincas men who will end with the elementary tion without considering the end; operated that commodity. How school, five hundred thousand but wa to-day argue continually ever such an admission does not whose formal education will be about means, crowding now sub- presuppose gullt. It would be the over by seventeen, fifty thousand Jects into a congested curriculum,
I am attractive widow in the height of absurdity if a Committee perhaps who are going on to the and testing them by an examin- of this sert attempted to control highest forms of training: theylation treated as an end in itself prims of life and live in a neigh- the production of tin without are analogous to the rank and which tends to grow ever more bourhood full of gossipy people. having the advantage of knowledge file, to the non-commissioned off-meaningless. Yet it is as plain as As a result you can hardly look of experts
of the Industry. A cors, and the officers of the army, a pikestaff that physical fitness is out of the windows without you brick-layer may become member And just as an army in the field, necessary for life, and that It is find somebody looking in. I have of the House of Commons and at- however brilliant the leadership, the foundation of moral and in-even been humiliated by having tack the Government's India policy, will fall unless the non-comtellectual fitness,
neighboura say that I was spying and a bus conductor might become mlaaioned officers are thoroughly Every child again is going out on them which is a lo Heavens a Miniator of Cabinet; but no-one efficient, so I feel that the well-into life as a citizen of the modern knows. I am not nosey but I like would suggest that an untrained being and real progress of our world, and in the first place of his to know what's going on. Now I and untried mind should attempt to nation can only be assured if the own country. I hold therefore want to know if I can got fram govern industry.
five hundred thousand are in our that It is the business of the you some curtains for my windows. educational system today being schools to teach him to speak and They must be in light gray and of prepared for the exigencies of to write his own language correct regular size. I want the kind that life as intelligently as they should, ly. It may be said that this is you can see out through but no-
what they do. But do they?
body can ace in through. I flow It is necessary, then, that the
This does not mean that I ro How many teach him to stand up to watch out in the street during judgment of the International Tingard either the five million or the and express himself clearly, to the evenings and do not wish to be Committee should be based upon fty thousand as unimportant; take a massage correctly, to re-accused of spying when I am not the advice of men who know this merely that I do not think that port an occurrence accurately? In the least interested in my business. As for the charge that their present training is defective They do teach him with success neighbours business though Hea- members of the Committee profited
I am moved to win marke in a written examina- vans knows there's plenty I could
EXPERT OPINION
be.
by a foreknowledge of market in the same way.
Thongkong Telegraph.reactions, it is pointed out that w admiration by the success with tion for the school certificate, but say if I was a woman who gossiped,
FRIDAY, FER. 28, 1935.
MAKING DEMOCRACY FUNCTION
Is a very
No one who is really trained for citizenship of the modern world elementary knowledge of what I may call the how, the why, and the where of
can do without an
of the Committee which the elementary teachers, I submit that this made public as soon as it is reach still hampered by classes which different thing. ed. Members of Committee, then
are too large and by buildings which are unsatisfactory, per- have no better opportunity than the ordinary market operator. Unless
form their duty to the nation of they are rogues, these carefully the future. Nor do I criticise the
universities. chesen officials will not endeavour to force Committee action into a channel favourable to their own speculations. In any event, there sort that any British member of the committee named In Parlia interest in pepper or shellac, or, ment has the alightest financial
for that matter, tin.
Resp ctfully,
Mrs. Kato.. (signed),
House Names
There's a gnashing of teeth at
The secondary schools have that world. He ought to know the The Larches; there's a wailing at
To students of politics, it is not a vestige of proof of any control of five very primitivo.outlines of world geography, and Mon Repos;
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FRIENDLY ENEMIES
upon
For the Council has decided that' the names in our street must go- Our pleasant, artistic house names, with their wealth of suburban lore,
That distinguish each little brick-box from the littla brick-box next door.
There's not too much to be glad of in this care-encumbered land;
Why then must we give up our houst-names and the things for which they stand?
There's the tang of the sea at Shanklin; thore's country air at The Pinca
not without interest that almost
years, from eleven to sixteen, and the outilnes of world, or at any for the simultaneously with Mr. Lloyd
at the end of this period the pupils rate European, history George's culvoency of the
pass out into the work of life. last two centuries,
It ought not to be possible, as But because secondary education creation of a Cabinet committee
has been thought of in times past is not only possible but done to of five members, on the lines of
as a course of preparation for the day, to send out pupils into lifa the War Cabinet, in order to
university or for the professions, who are ignorant of geography, or it has been conceived of quite whose history is a hazy knowledge concentrate on the task of na-
naturally as a foundation
of the Normans and Plantagenets, tional reconstruction, a similar Once again there is talk in. Lon- which a subsequent superstrue and nothing later. A course of
don of a idea has been put forward by standing. Once again questions thought of as primarily an
Sino-Japanese under- ture is to be built: it has been modern history and geography, In obligatory for all, ought to be Mr. Henry A. Wallace, the are being asked as to what steps tellectual training only: Its mean- studied in the last two years of
Great United States Secretary of re Britain is taking to ensure ing and values become evident secondary school life, for the plain and simple reason that if you do the safety of Empire interests in only if it is continued. Agriculture, a man who is known the Far East. Once again the This was perhaps well enough not know these things you are not for his progressive views. Mr. Government, through the Minister before 1902, when the five hundred educated for citizenship.
for Foreign Affairs, has informed thousand were not there; since Mathematics and one modern But where's the wind on the Wallace wants to see a reform in the House of Commons that there 1902, the conception has become language are an essential part: hoath, brother, in your sevens and the nation's political machinery is no knowledge of a Sino-Japanese increasingly obsolete. When you I will not discuss them. Selence forty-ninca?
rapprochement, that Great Britain have got half a million boys and also, if science is rightly thought
There's a gnashing of teeth at is watching all developments, and girls in the schools, who are, ba of. Too often it is thought to that the Dominions are being kept it remembered, the pick of their be the business of the school to The Larches; there's a walling at informed. It would appear from generation, and when you
ad-Mon Repos: know lay the foundation for
The Council has decided that the the questions asked in the House that they have to enter on life at vanced study of physics that some members of Parliament aixtoon-or-seventeen, surely it is chemistry, a study which never names in our street must go, have knowledge of a situation in common sense
to demand that comes. The course should be one But we, whose forefathers the East which is entirely hidden their education shall be something of simple biology, physico, and battled at Trafalgar and Waterloo. from the view of those of us who complete in itself.
Will fight to the death for Fern- chemistry,, which in the view of are closer to the scene of alleged
any real scientist is and must be ville, for Mignon and Kosiview. international negotiations. Theno
Ia mere smattering. Granted: it members suspect that China and Japan are coming closer together. the business of living In
They have, bil of them, to face should be taught merely with a the view to imparting knowledge of are nearing An understanding modern world: they have all of scientific method and a conception which will perhaps make possible them to be citizens, and Intelligent of scientifle law. realisation of the scheme for an citizens, of this country. I claim, East Asiatic bloc, fathered, we are therefore, that the course follow-
so as to put economic democracy
on the footing of political de
in
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"Where are we going? Inak my- self this question. But, as usual, I
get no intelligible answer."-Rt. Ilon. Douglas Tinklemore,
"Horedity? Yes, I'm a great be
led to believe, by Japan. It is an ed in secondary education should There is one other change, interesting supposition. It is not be a course of preparation for far-reaching one, on which it reliever in heredity. My father that Tokyo nay bave ambitions beyond the bounds of probability life, of preparation for citizen-mains to touch. The course I always said there was nothing in the direction suggested, but in faceship, and that no other standards have sketched above is in con- It. But, then, my father was an
are relevant.
siderable measure intellectual and ass."-Canon Canoodia. of the contradiction from Japan
of it will Let us apply these standarda, analytle: large parts Door undertaking is contemplated, that any alteration of the Open The first revolution
that they make heavy going for a great
(Continued on next column)
mocracy. Writing in Collier's Weekly, he dips into the future and foresees a new governmental unit, a sort of cross between a President's Cabinet and a Supreme Court, existing across SSSSSS the terms of various administra
tions empowered to sound out public sentiment and make de cisions on the great economic issues of the day. Such unit, he suggests, might consist of four councillors representing, respectively, industry, agricul tare, labour, and the consumers. They would be above class når. rowness just as the Supreme Court is above it; they would that any pressure is being brought iraply is that physical education | hold office for terms of a dozen years or more, so that the coun- eil would not change colour with each change of administration. Most important, they would be empowered to conduct referenda on vital issues. Suppose, for example, that the cancellation of war debts, or the wisdom of certain "social planning" schemes for re-employment, were up for consideration; the council would poll the country. find out just what the voters would or would not stand for,
to bear upon China to force her to relinquish membership In the League of Nations, or that any fur- ther territorial expansion on the mainland of Asia is planned, wo must believe that there is no Im- in the Enat. Even the formation mediate threat to British interests of a Sino-Japanese pact would not necessarily be detrimental to the relations between China and Grent Britain, or the rest of the world. China is an Independent nation and And though it will be a surprise f is free to choose her own friends. ahe makes an ally of an erstwhile enemy, as strange things have
and then order it to be done. It happened in history. Policy fa a is, of course, obvious that such a matter of expediency. As long as proposal as this could not be ac- China's Independence is secure, cepted without years of debate Britain, and the world, will have and study. Mr. Wallace does not no need for worry, or to intervene. suggest it as a reform to be
adopted the day after to-mor
of
row. But in the more fact of pected directions. To the busi- its being advanced there is a ness man, for instance, or of the mechanic, or ordinary labourer, significant revelation growing realisation that econo-life may be far more dependent mic, democracy and political do on the decision of some distant mocracy are two separate things, corporation, or on the mysterious and that machinery designed to and Incalculable shift ensure the latter does not al- economic forces, than upon any ways gain the former. When law that Congresa or State the American Government was legislature might pass. Some established, it was political de-way is needed of putting these. mocracy that was all-important. things under public control. If a man could be governed only It may be that Mr. Wallace's by laws in whose making he method would be impractical. himself had had a part, he was But he does a service by remind- free man, and the freedom ing people that the battle front thus gained was the only kind of democracy must be extended of freedom worth worrying somehow if not in his way, about. But the course then in another if freedom is ----- \events moved along in unox to remain a living reality.
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many of the five hundred thou- sand whom I have in mind and may leave them with a sense of failure.
But education, if it is to be successful, must lead to M` BONSE of achievement, which alone on- ables the adolescent to get a grasp upon life. There are many, whose brains are slow, but whose senseS are quick. For them education comes quickest through the eye, the ear, and the hand,
· It follows that art, music, and handicraft, and particularly, as I think, music, need to be lifted to a different and a higher plans in our scheme of education: they ought not 'to-remain, as too often they remain in our secondary schools to-day, the Cinderellas of the curriculum, starved of time. and opportunity, and too often dropped ́altogether as the end approaches.
Bravity has been necessary, and dogmatiam unavoidable, 1 do not apologize, but and with a final assertion, that our nation, thus educated, would be fitter to face the future than our nation as it is to-day.
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