PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 6

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

PAPER BY MB. LA TKOBE.' Thßj-.technoiogical section of the Philosophical Society held a meeting last evemngi-when Mr. W. S. La Trobo, Superintendent of Technical Education, and the ohairman of the section, read a pap»r on , Technological Education. After a few introductory remarks on the general probL em . of , 'echnological education Mr. La Trobe dealt with tho facts as far as they concerned New Zealand. He said tliat education at the present time was in the . melting-pot as it' wore. Great developments had taken place in the Old Country. University education in Britain was beconung more democratic now. and that meant that tno universities would enter more close y into the life of tho people than they had hitherto done. He thought there'.-would bo a wider uso mado of tho the differences that existed Between the closely, populated countries of Europe and America-and'.New Zealand, where the ?„,2Sj ßm r as gr f at . on account of the scat, Sn M & lr . e of the ""Pinion, and especially that part of tho population which was rtKlrfP-industries, which was the population that required to be E3fi!BW ~ei - Ho dea,t *' lth th ° <w- ? cn ,™ 0 ?V of .procuring teachers for tho technical-.colleges. There was no definite 2?/ tralnl «e of tcache?s There n'.-,,; Eomomca i 13 wherob y they could obtain young tradesmen- for teaching: Then, there was .the difficulty in reS chinery necessitating constant changes. ?„fe ln F:*« Now Zoalana . lf f- &a l"obe ■ said that m 1917 about 9550 children passed $e sixth standard and 5057 left at the ago Of he" 5 h 0 O ?h 3 ? a n Sßlnß , «Wh-BtaK-KJ»™ Passed-the sixth standard 2069 .went to secondary schools, 1422 went to v technical high schools. 1382 went to dis t™t.high jS chools and J478 did not Ko w any secondary, institution. About 64 pe? »«« Trobe n-ceived a vote of thanks for his-interesting remarks . '