"SISTO" IN REPLY.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 43, 18 September 1888, Page 3

"SISTO" IN REPLY.

TO THE Kl>tT«»R hr THE STAR. I am tempted to offer a few words in reply to " Committeenian" and " Weak Intellect," which, I promise, shall be final. I consider the position ought never tof have: been assumed , of rendering a schoolmaster wholly -ret sponsible for the slow progress of his pupils. He may be a ."very efficient teacher; but: the pupils must exert themselves to attain that which is being taught. It i&: easy for Mr Bin«on to make written, remarks, but it is very probable .were- he to undertake to teach' the children now attending the Feilding State School* he would have no better success than Mr Dowling.' I am sorry that having spoken the truth: has A wounded the' susceptibility of one of "Weak Intellect." However,'as he has indulged in abuse m place, of agument, I consider his non deplume as very^^ applicable. T would console, him by: suggesting his children will be taught "to hew. #• pod and draw water, -^gratis by that very potent teacher : -stern necessity. As to how I account for the lower standards having passed so much better than the higher ones, referred j -ta by the-Com-mittee, simply tfitfs : that when tried in the higher Standards the; .mental thermometer, registers them as being indolent or, of no capacity .rr-I am &c," .:^,_ .'.•- ■•.-, SiSTO,