PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

Evening Star, Issue 4071, 14 March 1876, Page 4

PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

Slß,—“ The united judgment of the parents is generally pretty correct concerning the moral tone of a school ’ So said Mr Eeid at the recent; meeting of the Otago' Schoolmasters’ Association in an excellent paper : ’on *‘ The Kelaiionsof Parents, and Teachers,”' Ttl the dlscusrion which followed, it would appear that this truth-was-ufipalatable to tome of the members of the A who, according to the newSparier report, r sap] “in Dunediu .they Suffered, greatly from that wr<tchel abortion of teaching those private schools!’! Truth will prevai', and things find their . leveh;.; If. private School-teaching tjhpuld ptoyfi ran abo tion, then there Would ■oon be ho grounds of -complaint, for private school teaching would fail to meet-with, recognition. But't rivate school-teaching holds • its own in Dunedin,/even in the face of Govemment c .mpetitioh, and will continue proBperoiiß so long as the sons and datigbieis of a »U-X^aAt J *people a»e to.be educated. Private scshoolg in the Home country are —Second to ho Government schools; simply the requisite. Supply., *1 . . ’ -—For-my-part-X reapect,jßyeryjjcheoUgacher ,/»■* feUqw-wcHjjer, in a great andrßpbl&cauae wbereih-alhiliat # ju-.Bhpidd-he stamped out; hM e »t; jutfiA /and ■ eflw e - j - 1* i • Ptiwdin, Much 9. I