FREE EDUCATION
EXTENSION ADVOCATED. By Telegraph—Preos Association. Auckland, January 31. The extension of free education to all who may desire to take up agricultural, domestic, or industrial courses, was strongly advocated by Mr. E. Newton in his presidential address to the members of the New Zealand Technical Teachers' Association. He pointed out tha.t at present the Act limits free secondary education to holders of proficiency certificates, yet the Act allowed school committees to impose compulsory education within certain limits on ail young persons,'irrespective of the proficiency certificate. Between these extremes would it not be reasonable to allow free voluntary education to all young persons? The presentposition meant that in one district young persons are prevented, from having what is forced.upon others. In another district agricultural, domestic, and industrial careers are taken up by those with no literary bent, yet it meant that as l far as free education for such careers was concerned, it wrs a /literary one. The injustice was a great one. It was our obvious duty to do all in our power to have it removed. Even with the present system of rewarding with free places' injustice was done to many deserving students, owing to the varying standards of attainment required in different education districts.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 2
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208FREE EDUCATION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 2
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