SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 4

SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

am very tired of the person who comes to the edticationist and says: 'It is not the "building that makes the school/ " wxites Mr Salter Davies, an eminent educationist from Kent who "wiU attend the New Zealand Education Fellowship conference in New Zealand next July. "It Was the Greeks who said that it is not buildings that make a city, but those men who were Greeks btxiljt a city of broken stones which . are to-day the admiration of the world. We should insisfc that our children, the futurei citizens of their country, shall be educated n6t in mean discreditable buildings, 'but in buildings which they will remember With pride. The new buildings in my own country are such buildings as children may well be proud of and are proud of. Each stands in a site of not less than eight acreS, and where there are two schools, oue ^ for 480 boys and 4s0 girls the site will be sixteen acres. "These schools posses not only classrooms but workshops of all hinds, workshops for wood and motai, for cookery and needlework and workships which are just workshops, the specifie use of which has not been entirely detexmined . . . and it has particularly in the more rural areas, a canteen where the children coming from a distance eat their mid-day meal in decency and in cOxnfort. I think that that provision . is one of the most important educational provisions in the school. Nothing has impressed me more in my pei'egrinations through my area than to see these children sitting down at tables spread with spotless tablecloths and decked with flowers, to eat a decent and well served meal. "