EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 12

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE

Impressions of Waipawa Residents From Our Own Correspondent. WAIPAWA, Last Night. The fortnightly meeting o£ tiio Waipawa Business Girls' Club was lield in the Odotellows' JTall last .venlng, Miss J . D. McKay ijrosicling over a giOod attendanco oi; xnembers. FclJowing tbe tea bour, Misses AicIhuald. Gray and McConnon, ga-e tbe members some impressions of tbe recent Educational Conference beld in Wellington, wben a party of tbe AVorld's Ieading educationalists delivered a series of Iectures in tbe course of a world tour jn the cause of Education. Miss McDouald'g remarks centered chiefiy cn the work, comments and advice of Dr. Boyd, of Edinburgh, tbe leadef of tbe visiting party; Miss Gray spoke of tbe new ideas in tbe training of tbe young cbild as advocated by Dr. Susan lsaacs, and Miss McConnon the work of Dr. Ddngler, of Austria, wbose experimental work among older children has yielddd very encouraging results. Tbe three speakers impressed tbfeir heurefs with the valuo of tbe confeffeiice, hot oilly lo teachers but to all ifltefested in the training of children, and ftlentidned also tbe not unimportant part thefee cultured men and women of varying nationalities must have in promoting better understanding among difl'erent peoples. At tbe coneiusion of tbeif remarks a bearty volo of thatlks was accorded to tbc spoakerS.