Unacknowledged
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Intelligence Goes
“The innate good sense of the native people of New Guinea is Australia’s good fortune ,” says J.
K. McCarthy in his book, “Patrol Into Yesterday”. “Many of them are uneducated and simple people according to Wes tern standards, yet they have a natural intelligence that has often gone unacknowledged”
Mr. McCarthy makes the point that political education is not an alternative course to economic and social advance ment, but is complementary to the other two. Australia has no option but to accept the fact in New Guinea that political edu cation is part of a general edu cation, and political aims cannot be retarded to keep pace with the economic growth of the country.