Challenge Declined
■ - r- '. DUNEDIN, Alaich 19. ''l.am not' a bLttihg nian unless there are some certainties about, , but' 1 bet 1 could give you a spelliug test that you eould not do, and 1 ?il wager 1 could put a Standard AT aritbmeLic test in from of you that ,you would not be able te do. " With those words Mr. A. F. McAIur trie, assistant Director of Education challenged delegates to the confereuce of tlie Associated Chumbers o'f Commerce after listeiuug to a great deal of criticism of wlmt was called "new" education. His remark aroused iaugh ter not unmixod with conslernation. Ne oue appcared ready to ' take up the gauntlot.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 March 1948, Page 7
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111Challenge Declined Chronicle (Levin), 20 March 1948, Page 7
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