Practical Side Of Adult, Education Is Favoured
New Zealand adults are following a world-wide trend in taking more interest in practical activities than in theoretical lectures. The second annual report of the National Council of Adult Education remarks on this trend and says that it is not being accepted without a good deal of questioning.
“While the number of tutorial classes, and the number attending these, has shown an increase, the major developments have taken place in those forms of adult education which call for more activity on of students,” says the report. “Classes of a practical nature, such as those in art, drama, music” and science have proved to be more popular than those of a more academic or abstract character. This trend appears to be part of a world-wide movement.
“But the widening scope of adult education is seen not only in the changing type of tutorial class. More and more of the time of class tutors is being taken up with help in local voluntary activities and community centre work.” Music had become an important part of activity. Classes in musical appreciation had always had an important and well-established place in the programme, but there had been a movement away from the more passive form of appreciation to the more active of participation. The most significant feature was the number of choral and instrumental groups being assisted by tutors. So great was the interest in music and also in drama that the tutors had more work than they can do. Throughout New Zealand last year there were 242 -tutorial classes with an enrolment of 6497 and an average attendance of 4299.
The average American-made car scrapped in 1925 was six and a half years old and had travelled :*5-740 miles. Today the average car is scrapped after 103,000 miles and 12:1 years of service. XXX
On January 1, 1950, the total .population of continental United Stateis was officially reported to have surpassed the 150,000,000 mark for the first time.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 72, 21 July 1950, Page 2
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