Frills And Furbelows Of Modern Education
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 7. Oiticising what he described as the frills aiid furbelows" of the modern education system the headmaster of Campbill Seeondary Sehool, Paisley, Mr. "W. A. Wilson, said at the annual prizegiving ceremony: "We issue reports, applauded to the echo, which tell us in all' seriousness that reading, writing, firithmetic, composition and grammar are out of date, and that instead we must spend precious . hours assessing intel-. ligence tests and training pupils to guess correctly. whether a 'sole' is a bird, fish or pieee of music. We print thousands of test papers full of such questions and ask a pupil to tick off the correet answer. "As one cynic recently put it," Mr. Wilson eoirtmued, "'we are giving children an exeellent training in how to fill ufo football coupons but we are being very eareful not to weary them unduly wil h adjectives and adver'bS'. "Then we proceed to write textbooks entitled 'French with out tears' or "Mathematics with out groffns.' We do evervthing t'he plev and are on the versre of anologising to onr pupils for asking them to do home exereises."
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 July 1949, Page 5
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