It is an ill bird fouls his alma mater, and a strange, estranged graduate who cries stinking degree: But we all of us have our suspicions

Well, so long as we have our doubts regarding the [unclear: worthwhtleness] of established institutions perhaps our faces are turned towards education: Though only when we begin criticising current criticisms are our feet really on the road.

And now no more unwise wise cracks. I merely want to point out how, when our schooling has finished interrupting our education, or If we care to interrupt the interruption now, we may do some education, some learning-teaching. Does schooling school? Of course It doesn't. It is living that does that: because living involves suffering the being bashed about by people and other circumstances, which is what knocks holes in our self-sufficiency whereby imports of understanding gets past the Customs of customs and self-esteem, and anything of good there is in us leaks out. Yes. I'm an awful meandering time coming to the point, I know. Here It Is: Join the W.E.A.

Workers' Education.

"Salient," which thinks that neither listening to lectures nor regurgitating them In November, nor even living actively in Free Discussion, Right, Left, and Religious Clubs, are In themselves education, has offered me this space to set out the W.E.A.'s current list of offerings (see below) because it gets closer to real education than any of these. W.E.A. classes have a proportion of older folk and "proletarian" folk, folk of differing life-experiences and differing working-philosophies, as like-aged, like-minded Intra-student clubs never can have. They listen to lectures. It is true, but not to absorb them. Instead of having three hours months later to regurgitate, they have an hour after each lecture to express their own questionings and criticisms and to hear those of others. And—most important of all—instead of swotting up to-day's lecture that it may be the basis for to-morrow's story of abstract knowledge in a topless Tower of Babel—Instead. In short of learning in order to learn more, they learn in order to live better. One class at present, for example, finds itself discussing, as a result of a survey of South American conditions, whether Its members should fight In the to-be-expected war of the Plutocratic governments to preserve their preserve of colonial and semi-colonial financial and territorial empire against the ambition of the Autocratic governments to share in it. A Philosophy class wants to discuss such fundamentals as "Why should we believe in democracy anyhow?" "Dialectical Materialism?" and "God?"

Your Souls Good.

Consider seriously whether, slightly for the good of your mind and vastly for the good of your soul, you should not find time to join a W.E.A. class in the midst of "more serious" studies: And then whether, fired out of the [unclear: flurnace] a complete Babu B.A. (Failed or otherwise), you should not form or Join where you live and work a W.E.A. Discussion Group for your own and others' good.

The Wellington Association has these Tutorial Classes functioning at present:—Recent Developments in English, American and Continental Drama: The Development of the English Novel: The Psychology of Personality: Economics—New Truths or Old Fallacies; How Your Government Works: European Democracies in Crisis: The Background of Political Thinking: Current History; The Place of Art in the Life of Mankind (All these at the Trades Hall, Vivian Street), and Life and Labour Since the Industrial Revolution (Dr. Sutch at Petone) and Musical Appreciation (Wednesday evenings at Victoria College).

Lecture-note Courses for small Discussion Groups in suburban and country areas are available in Economic Problems in a Changing World: Economic Problems in Changing N.Z.: The Co-operative Movement; The Labour Movement in N.Z.; Farming Problems: The Farmer in the N.Z. Economy: Plan or No Plan: Understanding Human Nature: Man's Place in Nature: N.Z. To-day and To-morrow; Language and Society: The Pacific Area and Its Problems; International Issues; Life Under Bolshevism and Fascism; and Child Psychology.

W.E.A. moans, of course. Workers' Educational Association. Its control lies with its own council of Trade Union and similar representatives or the one hand, while on the other its lecturers must be men of University Staff standing.