Valete and :Salvete

"My main objection to formal education these days is that it is not liberal enough. If I may oversimplify a little, the problem is this. Science courses are too narrow and too specialised, and insufficient attention is given to the humanities. On the other hand, those studying the humanities are all too often distressingly ignorant of the simplest scientific principles. In other words, there is a lack of balance.

"I believe that the cause of most of the trouble is that specialisation starts too early, and for this the standard of knowledge necessary to win a university scholarship is largely to blame. It makes for early specialisation.

"It might be a healthy innovation if the universities started giving some entrance scholarships on general education rather than on specialised subjects. That might help to check the trend towards early specialisation and restore some balance in school curricula.

"In considering this problem of how to achieve balance in education, we must not forget the home and the part which parents should play in the total process of education. The home and the school are so intimately bound up that it is impossible to divorce them, so that the parent is as much the teacher as the schoolmaster.

"I can think of no more imaginative way of bringing together boys and parents in an appreciation of the part which science plays in our lives than by holding an exhibition of the kind which we are witnessing today."

VALETE (April, 1955)

SCHOOL HOUSE M. R. Leonard. 1950-55. House Monitor. Transitus "B". G.C.E., "0"

Level, 1953. School Play, 1952-53-54. Ldg. Seaman in R.N. Section of

C.C.F. i/c Nelson Division. Stores Rating, 1953-54. Cert. "A", Pt. I, 1951. A.B. Exam., 1952. Ldg. Seaman Exam., 1952. P.O. Exam., 1954. 1st Class Shot.

SALVETE (January, 1955)

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