The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 55
The Macleay Chronicle, Thursday, August 27, 1885
The Macleay Chronicle, Thursday, August 27, 1885.
We have received a pamphlet containing a speech of the Premier of New Zealand on the education question. The Hon. R. Stout is one of the leading lawyers of that colony, and was at one time a teacher. He is evidently an educational thinker—moderate but broad in tone, and grasps his subject with a master mind. We will publish his speech as soon as possible, as it is one of remarkable ability and thoroughly original so far as such a subject can be. We have no hesitation in saying that we want such a mind in New South Wales, where, from all we can learn, the educational system is gradually descending to a system of petty official red-tape and tyranny.