"ROTTEN TO THE CORE!"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 296, 10 September 1919, Page 3

"ROTTEN TO THE CORE!"

EVENING CLASSES FOR THE YOUNG Is the education and training of the joung being overdone in the pursuit of tho fetish of efficiency? Mr. Park (director of tho Wanganui Technical College) called attention at yesterday's conference of directors to the strain that was being put upon young growing lads, who wero working nil day, attending technical classes three or four nights n week, drill one night, and possibly working at a shop one late night. Then there were the amusements, which probably meant u picture show. So that it meant that 6ix nights out of the week the boy wad out from 10 to 10.150, and had to bo up again in tho morning at 7 or V.30. JIo maintained, that tho system was not only destructive to homo life, but detrimental to the boy's health. "What's the use of discussing the reso. lution 'that no young persons under tho age pf 15 bo compelled to attend evening continuation or technical classes?'" said tiis chairman. "It's only bentinjr the air. Tho whole thing is rotten to tho core! There should be no evening classes at all I My own opinion is that tho more resolutions we pass the more wo perpetuate tho evil."