SCHOOL TILL AGE OF 18
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~ X Sir Percy Meadon's Ideal ADDRESS TO TEACHERS
(By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "I hope that one day every boy and girl will have to stay at school until he or she is 18 years of age," said Sir Percy Meadon, eminent English educationist, when addressing school teachers to-day. He added that if this ideal beca/tae aq actuality he would make the break between the, primary and secondary phases of education at 13 years of age. "There is no reason," he said, "why every child should liave the same curriculum. ' ' He added that an effort was being made to break down the barrier between schools with an academie curriculum and traditions going back centuries and new schools with a realistie eurrieulum.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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