An analysis of the ideals of some New Zealand primary school children, being a thesis in education presented for the degree of Master of Arts

Abstract

"When a man says, 'Time is Money, ‘he forgets that leisure is wealth - the wealth that is a creation of human spirit, whose material counterpart may be money. This age is riding on a tornado of rapidity, We cannot stop its course and should not even if we could. Our only regret is that we may forget that slow and mature productions of leisure are of immense value to man, for these only can give balance. The spirit of progress occupies a great deal more of our minds today than the deeper life process of our being, which requires depth of leisure for its sustenance. We do not allow ourselves time to evolve religion, to reconcile the conflicting elements of society. Creative ideals suffer. We are spiritually slovenly.The cramped time produces deformity and degeneration; frenzied haste develops chronic dyspepsia. Man is growing old in spirit; sharp shocks of quick time bring on him the weariness of decrepitude." (2) - Rabindranath Tagore. " If we cannot link mechanical production with culture,we are a miserable generation. We know the future will be greater in the mechanical productive sense; if culture does not keep pace with it, culture will perish." (3) - Henry Maunsell Richards