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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 13, No. 6. April 13, 1950

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A tutor

Further, some students may be moved to ask', "What do the staff do with all their spare time?" A very proper question.

The answer to this will be found to contain also the answer to the first. The staffs job does not consist merely of lecturing, They are engaged in their several ways in the disinterested pursuit of knowledge in their chosen subjects, sometimes characterised as the search for truth. This is not an easy matter. They are so engaged so that they will, be the better able to pass some of their findings on to the students and inspire them to the conviction that the things of the mind are worth devotion that knowledge is more to be desired than gold. But the student's function in this business is not a passive one. Unfortunately an amazing number of students do resemble blotting paper, particularly when some lecturer is doing his utmost to strike a spark from them. But it should not be like that This university education is a co-operative active process the meetings of the minds of student and teacher. Mr. Braybrooke admitted that this was an ideal view of university activities not always realised in practice. But he emphasised that this desire to meet students on common ground was general among the staff and that they were willing to give of their best to the genuine student. It's also up to the students to do their part and the horrible barrier of excessive respect, which seems to be a hangover from our school days, must be broken down.

There is also the question of the student's view of the world about him. Mr. Braybrooke quoted a writer who said that this is an age of the intellectual organisation of political hatreds. The genuine student will then give earnest thought and attention to, for example, political matters. We students should go out into the world prepared to examine the facts at any cost. A student will be a stranger to mere uninstructed political passion.

Further, the sporting and cultural clubs which abound in the college own not an idle existence. Here, as before, it can be said, seek and ye shall find". Take part in all that you reasonably can. Mr. Braybrooke does think that it may be questioned whether all clubs take their jobs seriously.