INSPECTOR'S FAREWELL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 4

INSPECTOR'S FAREWELL

Mr. T. A. Morland'! Address To Education Board SCHOOLS 0F THE FUTURE Education cnanges, particularly those bearing on staffing problems, were touched upon by Mr T. A. Morland, senior inspector of schools for the Hawke's Bay education distriet, who is tranpferring to Otago in March of next year, in his farewell address to the Hawke's Bay Education Board yesterday. Mr Mqrland traced the changes that had taken place during his five years' service in this distriet and mentioned the staff difficulties occasioned early in the period by the rationing system during the depression and, now that conditions all round were better, by the shortage of teachers. Progress in other ways had taken place, Mr Morland said, mentioning the abolition of the proficiency examinations, the introduetion of the intermediate system^ and the consolidation of schools, which last move he would like to see continue. The value of milk Ln schools, the introduetion of Biblereading, the return of the five-year-olds, and the movement now afoot for a wider. froer and more generally useful educational system were also mentioned. Activity would be the keynote of the classroom of the future, Mr Morland said. Discipline, as known to-day, would be a thing of the past, and children would be taught to cultivate to a greater degree the qualities of self-reliance and initiative. Dealing with the physical training of children in schools, the speaker urged the board t'o make the provision of more swimining baths a prominent plank in its future platform. In conclusion he expressed his appreciation of the co-operation he had received from board inembers and teachers, saying that, in his opinion, Hawke's Bay had as fine a body of teachers as any distriet in the Dominion.