Old School Tie-Up

Dr. Ausubel in his book "The Fern and the Tiki" criticises our private school system. He found it "the most authoritarian tradition—bound and hierarchially organised of institutions in New Zealand society."

Does this explain why New Zealanders studying in the United States often find students there more original—thinking and forthright than students here.

It may be true too, that private school products here tend, after schooldays, to follow and consolidate rather than initiate in politics, the arts and some other fields where a little originality and rebelliousness is required.

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