Part 22 (1/2)

”Yes, I see that,” said Duncan thoughtfully, ”but what about cole for place”

I shook my head

”No competition! I won't have it It ives the poor chap at the bottoe not competition but co-operation

Competition leads naturally to another world war, as co now”

Then Duncan floored e football because it introduces the idea of competition?” he asked

”Of course not,” I replied

”Then why discourage it in arith question, and I had to grope for an answer that would convince not only Duncan but ainst his fellows is a fact that we cannot ignore Mr Arthur Balfour's desire to beat his golfing partner and Jock Broon's desire to spit farther than Jake Tosh are fundamentally the same desire, the desire for self-assertion And I see that the man who comes in last in the quarter-mile race is in the same position of inferiority as the boy who is always at the bottom of the class Yet I condemn competition in school-hile I appreciate coames Why?

I think I should leave it to the children Obviously they like to coames and races, but they have no natural desire to cos naturally lend the, football and so on

Other things do not encourage competition Bernard Shaw and G K

Chesterton do not cole to publish the record nue Robey and Little Tich do not appear together on the stage of the Palladium and try to prove which is the funnier Rivalry there always is, but it remains only rivalry until _The Daily Mail_ offers a prize for the biggest cabbage or sweet-pea, and then competition seizes suburbia

I should therefore leave the children to discover for themselves what interests lend themselves to competition, and what interests do not I know beforehand that of their own accord they will not introduce it into school subjects This is in accord with my views on the authority question I insist that the teacher will i; that his task is to watch the children find their own solution

Ithat ca and ill-inforht

Dauvit took no part in it, but e rose to go he said: ”Tak' ”

”How do you make that out, Dauvit?” I asked

”Because it's a success,” he said shortly

To-night the Rev Mr Suid, and to hi Macdonald the Freudian theory of dreams when he entered, and when Mac told hied me to continue It was evident that he had never heard of dream interpretation, and he was surprised

”And every drea?” he asked

”Yes,” I said

”I had a drea hand

”You shouldn't tell your dreas away that you don't want others to know”

He laughed