TEACHING OF INFANTS.
CBy Tolcgraph.-Press Association.) Timai-u, April 1. At a meeting of (he Teachers' Institute 10-iUiy » paper road liy an infant mistress of long experience in infant teaching led to n discussion on a remark by tho Inspci'tor-Hencral that children wero kept 'too long in preparatory elapses, and on a suitable age lor children entering i-chool. Regarding tiio former point tho contention was that two to two years and a half for bright children, ami half a yeur more for the average child was nut 100 .lung for infaiil-i'nom tuition. As to the entry ago. some thought that six, some soven, and a few eight was early enough, lietiinis from the six Inrgost schools in South Canterbury showed tho average ages of admission were from live years 5 months to live years eleven months, willi a mean of five warn- seven months. Resolutions were adopted that pupils were not spending too much time, in the infant room, and that the Department bo asked to replace pupil teachers in infaut rooms by assistants.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 4
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173TEACHING OF INFANTS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 4
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