EDUCATIONAL POLICEMEN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1776, 14 June 1913, Page 9

EDUCATIONAL POLICEMEN.

A SCHOOL INSPECTOR. (By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, June 13. An indictment of certain aspects of our educational system appctirs in a report to the Wanganui Education Board by Acting-Chief-Inspectpr Strong. "Owing,"' ho say 9, "to the large and growing amount of routine work, the inspectors arc not only much overworked, but, in spite of themselves, are forced into a rut, gradually losing their power in the higher paths of educational thought. At the risk of being accused of preaching," he says, "I would venture 1 to draw the board's attention to the- mistaken aim in modern methods of teaching. At the present time the governing idea seems to be that in order to train boys and girls to become useful members of society, it is necessary to fill their minds with information on as many subjects as possible. It is entirely; a mistake to suppose that the mind grows in power in proportion to tho'number of subjects studied, and the amount of information imparted. "In the hurry and bustle of inspection and examination duties, there is left to the inspector•time neither for reading nor Tho inevitable result of overpressure is to make him take refuge in routine. He becomes stereotyped and fit only for educational police duty."