EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 6 June 1913, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

THE NEW SYLLABUS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, June 5. The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute commemced to-day, Mr. W. A. Service (president) occupying tho oliair. Botween CO and 70 mombers wore present. It was resolved to reply to tho letter from tho Assistant InspectorGeneral regretting his inability to comply with tho institute's request for copies of tlio new syllabus for consideration, that members understood that nothing definite was to be done about tho syllabus until the Educational Institute had had a chanco of discussing it and expressing an opinion about it. A letter is also to bo sent to the New Zealand Institute, and an attempt made to securo copios cf tho syllabus. ,-The ohairmau gavo a brief address on '"Our Duty as Individual Members of the Institute." Ho pointed out that tho institute was recognised by Parliament as tho official mouthpiece cf the teachers of the Dominion. If Mio institute. was to have tho maximum amount of available power, every teacher must be a member. Tho following officers were elect-ed-.-President, Mr. T. Patterson; vicepresidents, Messrs. W. Rodger and W. W. Turner; secretary and treasurer, Mr. W. Phillips. A motion to disapprove of employment by education boards of superannuated tenchers as relieving olficcre was lost on the voices. It was resolved that in tho event of a candidate failing ill any subject of examination he should have returned to him, on payment of -\ small fee, marked papers of those subjects in which he failed, with a criticism theieon. In the evening, Mr. Armstrong gave an address on "Tho Care of Children a Teeth." He condemned tho present system of admission for treatment at the Dental Scliool connected with the Otago University Dental Hospital. He said that it was a State-ondoweu institution, and ho proposed that every teacher should have the right of sending to the hospital for freotreatment any child that it was considercd could not afford dental attention. lie pleaded for a'simpler form of admission on tho certificate of a teacher, clergyman, doctor, or dentist. Tho matter was referred to the Headmasters' Association. Reporting on the meeting of tire New Zealand Educational Institute at Row Plymouth last year, Mr. G. Macdonald said there had been a good deal of misconception with regard to tho councils attitude on the BiWe-in-schools question. It was currently said that the council had rejected tho proposal by 48 votes to Tho-actual resolution passed was: JLhat tlio New Zealand Educational Institute, while recognising the value of Bible teaching and of religion, was opposed to the programmo of tho Bible-in-Schools Leaguo." He believed that a majority were against tho proposal to make teachers take part in tho work.

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