Educational Blunders

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 31 July 1884, Page 3

Educational Blunders

«• Seldom have the Education Board's meetings been so lively as was Thursdays. The Inspector" in giving bis report of the examinations dealt very ■everely with the many errors which had been made. Amongst the most laughable that were read out, were the following.- One teacher made Walpole, • Lord M'ajofr'of 1 London; and another is responsible for the assertion John Wycliffe wa^r. leader in the rebellion in Charles the Second's reign . The geographical knowledge of some was exceedingly accurate, for instance one gravely states that bunker's Hill is a place in Kilkenny, (perhaps the Yankees could say whether the battle ot Bunker's Hill," was in any way like the fight of the Kilkenny cats.) Another candidate informs us that the British possession" in America, include Cape Colony, and the United States. But what will our Wellington friends say on learning that city is th« capital ot the Lower Hutt (fact, a pupil teacher says so.) To take two other instances ot the foolish answers given ; one teacher says that the roundne-s of the earth is proved by going up in a bal'obn, whue another, who evidently knows all about the late rains, says that the rain is sent to keep up the j guppjy of water.