SCHOOLBOY INGENUITY.
BISHOP ON EXAMINATIONS. LONDON, June 26. Describing school examinations as competitions in low cunning between examiners and examinees, the Bishop of Bradtord (Dr. A. W. F. Blunt) on speech day at St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, congratulated the prize-winners on their ingenuity. “If an examiner can bowl out a boy, it is one up to him,” Ija said, “but if a boy makes an examiner believe that lie knows more than he actually does, he scores. The prize-win-ner is the one with the biggest apparatus for low cunning. A headmaster has to speak of scholastic honours to please governors and parents. Three-quarters of what is learned at school is useless. The important thing is not how much information scholars acquire, but whether the school produces the mental zest which is the foundation of true culture.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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135SCHOOLBOY INGENUITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 177, 28 June 1937, Page 7
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