THE NEW SYLLABUS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 3

THE NEW SYLLABUS.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, last night-

At a meeting of the Education Board, Mr H. J. Groenslado said that for the past six months the Board had been in communication with the Education Department in the hope of obtaining definite information as to the intentions of the Government in regard to making provision for supplyiog publio schools with apparatus and appliances required under the new syllabus of instruction. The only reply received to date indicated that the matter “ will receive attention.” This, sajd Mr Greanslade, was extremely unsatisfactory. In the Auckland district the new syllabus was brought into general operation- at the beginning of this school year, and school committees and teachers alike wer e clamouring to the Board for the necessary appliance wherewith to carry out the scheme of introduction described in the syllabus. It was an absolute absurdity that a new scheme of instruction should be introduced without adequate provision being made for the same. He moved “ That the Department be again communicated with by telegrams on the subject, and its urgency poioted out.” This was carried unanimously. The same subject was referred to by tho Chief Inspector ;n his annual report, lie stated that if education training is to have that close relation to the ordinary life, experience, and surroundings of tho children, which the new syllabus contemplates, apparatus will have to be provided with as little delay as possible.