Professor JOHN MACMURRAY (Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University of London) :
' Education for Leisure '
LAST week Professor Macmurray stated the problem of the quantity and quality of leisure that an industrial democracy can provide, and the kind of use that can be made, of it for living a truly human life. What kind of training do we need if we are to share in a democratic culture ? How must wo be educated, if wo are to attain, under modern conditions, to the enjoyment of the fullest humanity that wo arc capable of reaching ? There is no end to the subsidiary questions which might be asked in this connection. Here are two which might well be used in preparation, not merely for this particular talk, but for the whole series : lirstlv, How much of all that I learnt during my education, has been of real value to me, and how much could I have done wthout ? and secondly, What has my education failed to give me that I feel the need of now? This is the last talk in the ' Learning to Live ' series. After Christmas, Professor Delislo Burns is to give a series of twelve talks on ' Modern Life and Modern Leisure ' beginning on January 8.