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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 21. Spetember 14, 1950

Reformation

Reformation

Maurie McIntyre looked calmly at Dr. Beaglehole's eternal truths, and proclaimed himself the Reformation—he too, had eternal truth. No graduate a P.M.? Surely this proved the advantage of a university education. He deplored the absence of any standard to judge this over-rating by: the affirmative had given him none, so he set his own—the study of intellectual disciplines. It was impossible to overrate the ideal; and even the present real education couldn't be over-rated. The staff themselves were guilty of under-rating—why, this was the first time they had bothered to co-operate with their students!

This very debate proves the futility of education, proclaimed Miss Stevens, going on nevertheless. N.Z. university education is the world's best, and look at it. "There is a seriousness about these students who stagger up the hill to morning lectures at five to eight, eight o'clock, five past, ten past. . . ." But where does it get them. We should devote the ISS collection to helping Indian students stay away from university.