NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 5

NOTES ON EDUCATION.

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_ At the-recent Catholic Congress which':wai held in Sydney, Archbishop Kelly.complained;''i' : 3 that the New South Wales Department of Pub.: 'i'' he Instruction .had put into hands' of students attending: the training college'" for ;j touchers a volume of English literature' written' by Carlyltv entitled "Heroes, Hero Worship, ;/ri| ami rferocs in- History."; EagesVißG'aridUM',:i---contained matter highly pffensrre to BomaiJ''i Uthohcs,. and- attacked, tbeir '-. faith.. :•. It s ?-■-: A destroyed absolutely the boast that thereVag''-'i a benevolent neutrality .in'; religious,'instruct ; v; tion. In those pages they fonnd: V;i condemned fifteen centuries ago, , and. destrmx'^ A tivo to the faith in our ' Redeemer,: brought insidiously beforfl the future teachers of on- ■' '■''■ primary schools." It was an abuse of tM' !i public school system;; •■ '',; •-.'■' ■■'■' '.'.. .' 'J 5 his^ p k . r* r( <*U? ''ight. The/new;^; : South Wales. Department of Public Instruct tion had no business to breaks faith with * ; " community which hnd declared for a ; tecul'a* / 1 system of education, by ; sanctioning'tne'intxo- , ' ductson, of. literature which assails tlw religion v; ' ;: ' : of a'particular section of that community..l3> 's fi J? B*™,8*™ , of education tno state,, there can .never be,: in''the;'present condition of religions thought, ■ any i referent ■:* whatever to religion.. If all men thought alike : ii in matters of religion, tie case would be diftisi lerOßl't ~■ ' --.. -'"■( ■■ . '. ■".■■.■:'.- M-. ■;'■. \ ''.'-.--,:■,.■:/ ""V/i

n- \ all ..< J oaatriee," observeeAifr: iP. BoarA ' ;: Director ,of Education, in New South Wales, 3 if a recent report upon his inTestjgations: into the '4h educahonaf wstcmss in , : vogue in ■ theStates ■■ and Caiiada, ■ ."the rural' school /is a.M problem to . educationists. , V .Afterto the handicaps which tho rutalj school euffefZ:}' Mr. Board asks *hat 'is'to'bo': done crease, tho educational facilities of try childrea, and ' give tiiem inore , advanced'' - mstmchon, and fitting the ; rcmiirem«nW^f: r '' the pupil who■; is to. make his Urmg ■ largely by ■"? rural prodnotipn? K.Americanv.iil' Canadian"?■ experience, he: says,'points ;t« tie; Consolidation 'Sti : smal schools by a ; system . of .oenGolidatiqnW , would,, he ,Hunke,--:go :far. system ] .which. would:.include manual training, . elementary _ agrioulture, ' . domestio scienoe,'etc.r-possible in agnoBltnra1l ;;; distnots. Under the system of train&rlteachr '" ;; ere .now. m operationin New Sontt Wales, a v* v certain number are' being trained eaoli year to V »- ! are .being trained in. tho. use of tools, while all aw being reared;m,,the; ,method S ,>Natnre ;v ; study. But than- this is needed to aaet & the immediate .needs', of the. twal''. 'Oforgamsation of. viEitrng instructors -,with W i= , asteaohersand sonnd:knewl€d?e;oftha *m principles and methods of the various'farms of l 'A rural mdßstry,^vou).d t bwt meet.the.■ needs J .": teachers ■might, be distri-f 'm buted in tho distriofs: of the, State; whare• on* '< s : partwula'r ; ;orm:flf,industry ■prcddfflinatee- ; ori' ; ':/ chard-growing, dairying, .poultry-farming, "or '/• gqneral. farming, : and by visiting the: .schooled wjithm. an group'iu rotation give'in- :?v struchon to theelder'children of a kinlsuited >r .to ; tlw ; prevai!m ? form : df:agricultural tion -in the district. :A competent teacher, suclv . as would, to needed 'for thf Si .:work;.would ! .also :: V .be ,pf_ seryice/lo the ,adult- members of- the- com-''W: rnunity in the.district: in, which he worked,' ■ though': ; liisvserTieos,:im that, direction wbiilil\ -A need.to.lje subordinated,to-the claims which' ' ; make,upon him.'rThis'plan : - ; - need net be ~ :'--■.-•■•• . ■■•■ ',■ ~;'; :: ■ ; ' l ' ; : .Demands, for the : establishment''!'bf eoparaV^' :; - Bchools .are •occasionally :met ; with;-in^.various parts; .of, the ■ North; Island.and an' arita^ 5 ■• 4 l 1 4 s kmd ' 056 ' , d «nns- the year : in' flie ■ cfce ■•>;■:• V of_the_Hauaroa-'Native,school!lo^tlie= ; ; 'ln>ch'case« ivy ■fact; that,.there •■ is - no- authority:: under the laV- ; % tor' refusing admission- to - a childoorn r account generally, oreriooke'd, -,'- : aad the staps.that would be taken to maintain.: '- the. schools as separate are; not; very evident-'. f i lii- tho only .two-places ; where'separate' sokibls ' ' are known to exist, children, of-both races'.may - -■; be. fouud in each, European children, attendisi? ■ :- the Native school and Maori; children: atteridtoit: v"; the.European one.: The' polity; of :the Depart Xss n ,A ■ V^* ll preponderating-'maiCTT '■ ity,'of. the chudron-'.in- attendance, at a Na- .'. ,tive. school consists' of Europeans,'- the;' school'- ,: shall be handed over to the ■control; of ■ tho , i: Board of. Education.for the district >,It,wQuld : ' be very; unwise, thereforfc "to buildi .feepayafe ;ft schools in places where the, comrnuriiti'. con. v-' sists-of. Maoris' and 'Europeans., wit; iwWßiild::a considerable -'waste , of.'publw'"intaßejr, : ,'.' ■ would' not secure theVdesired' ecgre'gatibnk, and ':X ■would kindle feelings of discord - amongst {the " , people.' "One king, one-flafe, two schools 1"; e- .• claimed an ■ old: Maori.in' an 'East ■ Coast '.tpwß-': •■:' .ship,' where Separate'schools, exist.-", , :.:. : ■.'..,,.,;;>