SCHOOL PRIZES.
To the Editor of the Akaroa Mail.
Sin,—" Those children not entitled to a prize received a small book as a present." So I read in a report of a school examination in to-day's Mail. "In „ the name of common sense, whatever for ?" was my mental rejoinder at once. ' ' 1; , \ I have neither time nor inclination to attempt any. elaborate argument against the twaddle and cant that is hawked aborit nowadays as to education—of which we see mighty little, though we hear enough —but as an old schoolmaster, as onfe who has had long service as Chairman of a School Committee for years, and as one who is keenly alive to the benefits of education in the true sense of the word, do let me raise my voice in protest against this bid wives' system of present-giving at; examinations. The system is rotten" to the core. If you give presents, give them, and do away with prize giving; but .if you give prizes, give prizes only.. I i. -■•,.' '.< 11 Yourb, &c.i ■■ i I . JOHN BULL. !
Akaroa, Feb. 4.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 267, 7 February 1879, Page 2
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180SCHOOL PRIZES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 267, 7 February 1879, Page 2
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