In suggesting to a meeting of the Dunedin branch of the Otago Educational Institute last week a tow remedies for defects in our educational system, the chief inspector (Mr. T. K. Fleming) expressed tho opinion that one of tho most serious evils of our educational system was the British system of examinations, which, as a tost of attainment, was incompetent, and crippled tho initiative of tho teacher. Examination by pen and paper alono was at best an unsatisfactory teat of attainment, evon in languages, and in eoience it was positively absurd.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 182, 22 April 1918, Page 4
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91Untitled Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 182, 22 April 1918, Page 4
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