"PASSION FOR WORK."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18423, 2 July 1925, Page 9

"PASSION FOR WORK."

UNIVERSITY COMMISSION IMPRESSED. I EVIDENCE OX ACCREDITING \ SYSTEM. 1 (TRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRXSI ' AITKLANP. July 1. Professor A. C. Paterson, replying to questions, referred to tlio dependence of the University in New Zealand on students' iocs. .It seemed that it the daytime lecture system was adopted, the University would to a certain extent bo depopulated, ami would notho a bio to cariy on through lack of funds. The ro:»o!t why mo;>: students in New Zealand were earning a living, was a point he could not <iuito clear up 'Clio experience was that the establishment of a separate University changed public iuditferenco into warm tiuamial support. Professor C. AY. T'gerton said that h<> found that oven some of tho students reading for honours were so jwor thab they hail to earn money hv outside omplii.vnu'iit. Some were school teaching and took University work after -t p.m. Tho system a fleeted honours work very much, and overstrain often resulted. Tho system was tine to poverty of individual students. Mr James Drummond, headmaster of tho Auckland dammar School, said that most of tho principals of secondary schools were in favour .if an accrediting system, not ;is a substitute for matriculation and kindred examinations, but as a means of relieving tho latter and making them more effective and more reliable. The system of accrediting favoured of secondary school* provided for tho Senate, on advice, to draw up a list of secondary schools) qualiiitd to accredit. At least threo years' satisfactory work at secondary schools would ho required for accrediting, on tho recommendation of a, principal, endorsed by an inspector. Tho matriculation examination would ho required of candidates not accredited. "Many of the boys," continued Mr Drummond. ''who take up law or teaching, would no doubt tako tip dentistry, medicine or engineering, if, it wero possiblo to follow tho necessary courses without going away from home. Parents who havo often made great sacrifices in keeping their sons at school until the ago of 17 or 18, aro evou prepared to go further in order to havo them educated in a profession for which they aro best suited, but they cannot i'aco tho oxpenso of sending them to Dunedin or Christchurch, and paying for their hoard there. Tho result is that many of our best hoys aro denied an opportunity of following thab calling in which they can do tho best service, with their special gifts, to tho country." Mr Tato: "We havo been struck by this passion for work and employmenu ou the part of tho average Kew Zealand student. It is a great symptom. Is it maintained through lifo? Mr Drummond said that tho majority of the boys were in earnest over their school work. They were all anxious to take employment so as to earn something.