PRESENT-DAY EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 12

PRESENT-DAY EDUCATION

LATE INSPECTOR’S CRITICISM Dominion Special. Palmerston North, December 2. A sweeping criticism of the presentday State educational system was voiced by Mr. E C. Isaacs, late inspector of technical schools, at to-iiight’s.break-ing-up ceremony in connection with the local institution. “Our schools, at the present time are not functioning as they should and are not developing the powers of children as they should be doing,” said Mr. Isaacs. “In my opinion the system of school instruction has not ’ progressed in < ffectiveness in the last five hundred years, while it is fifty years behind public opinion and public demands. Our technical schools system is too bookish. I would remove education absolutely from politics, and secondly I would have no individual director of education. What can one man brought up in a literary atmosphere know about trade and the professions rnd the primary' industries cf out country and be able to cuide the destiny of the nation ? Therefore (continued the speaker, I feel that education will never be brought into its true place in the national life of the people until we evolve a co-operative system. We must have ;.n administrator, but I would have the best brains of the country associated with him in determining the best system for our schools. I would secure all experts. Thus would every possible power which our children possess be brought, cut, and by meaps of having every side of our national life represented we should accomplish some good.”