FRENCH CLUB
OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.On -Wednesday evening the French Club held a debate oil tlie question, "Is our' Education System Satisfactory?" Mrs. A. M. Myers introduced the subject, taking the negativo side. She spoke of the proper education as that which would ht the pupil for tho battle of life. Sho urged that domestic economy should be taught, as so many of our women and girls were very ignorant of household 'matters compared with.'French women. She also referred to agriculture, our principal industry, saying that not to teach that subject was a blot on our system. Mr. Cooke followed on the other side, and, replying to Mrs. Myers, stated that agriculture in coiuicction ' with . school gardens was taught in many schools. He also referred to the subject of sewing taught in nearly every school, and to tho establishment of cooking classes, as showing that .much is done to train girls to be good housewives. He gave as one reason for considering thu New Zealand system as eminently satisfactory that it brought education within- the reach of all. He spoko of schools being established everywhere; even where 'there were very few inhabitants household schools prevented the children from growing up in.ignorance. -He'showed that tho education was not merely intellectual, but also physical and moral, and referred at somo length to the physical and breathing exercises now taught in all schools. Miss Hughes considered that writing was too much neglected, and that too much time was spent on arithmetic. . Mr. Adamspn thought that' tbei use of geographies published in England .gave children wrong ideas of our, natural phenomena. Miss Hind said school classes were too large, and so teachers could riot deal with pupils according to their several 'temperaments.- She condemned the teaching of so much Latin in secondary schools—a subject. 'often distasteful to pupils, and of very little use. Miss Van Staveren considered that our system had been, productive of much good. Messrs. Whetton and Hodgson also ■took part in tho debate. On. being put to the vote, tho motion that our education system is not satisfactory was carried by a small majority.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2841, 4 August 1916, Page 3
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