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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2081, 6 January 1908, Page 2

TECJ INICAL EDUCATION. All who are interested in the welfare of the younger generation in this town will find an hour spent at the Gisborne School to-night an exceedingly profitable expenditure of time. Properly speaking, the schoolroom should bo inadequate to hold the assembly. Parents who are anxious for advice as to how to train their lads in such a way as to give them the best possible chance to hold their own in the battle of life, and business men whose lives are cursed by the muddling of incompetent workmen should all take the keenest interest in technical education. The term is an elastic oiio, and is frequently misunderstood, but it can roughly bo defined as a branch ot education having for its object the training of pupils in such a way as to give them at any rate the groundwork for the occupations they are likely to follow in after life. However. on these points wo can safely leave the matter with Air. Robjohns, the gentleman who has recently been appointed to take charge of the Napier Technical School. Air. Robjohns has had a first-class English training, end speal* authority-

tively on the general tendency of technical education in England anti Europe. Gisborne is woefully behind in these matters, ami if our visitor can succeed in arousing some local interest in one of the most vital problems of tho day, he will have earned our warmest gratitude.