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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Personal Volume

The Value of our University Education Tested

The Value of our University Education Tested.

As to what the effect of University education has been in the past, I think I jnay say this: that the ordinary pass student in our University as a B.A. is just as well educated as the ordinary B.A. in the older Univereities of Britain. In fact, I heard from two of the examiners we had in Britain that in some subjects out New Zealand students were better prepared than students in Home Universities. I wiui informeil that one of the examiners had said that our LL.B.s gave better papers in Koman Law than those who sat for Roman Law in the University of London. Then, again, one examiner in English who was a professor of one of the Universities in Britain said that as a whole the University students examined from Xew Zealand were better prepared than those of the University witli which he was connectecl. We can test the value of our education by the success of our students who leave the University and go to various institutions in Britain, and I venture to say that our graduates are as well equipped as the ordinary pats student of any University anywhere. Our Rhodes scholars, considering their number, have done better than the German students, and the German students have come from their secondary schools, which, some of the professors say, excel ours.