LONGER SCHOOL LIFE
GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSAL LEGISLATION PLANNED “The education system, in common with many others, can never with advantage stand still,’" commented the Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, in a jubilee message to the Shannon School.
The Minister added that many would be able (o recall Hie early days of New Zealand, when education was compulsory only up to Standard IV or to the age of 12 years, and when ability to read and write and perform simple arithmetical calculations was all that was considered necessary.
Mr. Fraser said that by successive stages school life had been lengthened and the scope of school work enlarged, but school life was still too short and the curriculum too narrow. He believed the school had much to offer young people long after they had reached the age of H years, and it was the intention of the Government to introduce legislation and to remodel eurriculums to enable that to be done.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 14
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159LONGER SCHOOL LIFE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 14
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