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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 30, 23 January 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

School Teaching. —With regard to the practice of giving scholars lessons to bo studied at home an indignant writer says ; The whole system of merely hearing lessons recited in public is a cunning fraud falsely so called. These teachers teach them nothing. They sit majestically enthroned in their school chairs To decide, daily, whether the parents have done their—that is, the teachers' —work at home and to punish or reward the scholar for the parent’s ability or ignorance. When we pay taxes for public schools or enormous fees for the private ones wo want tutors, not magistrates for our money ; we want the men and women employed in schools to do something more than sit up in state and ask questions ; wo want them to teach our children something that they did not know and not send them home to be taught, that they the teachers may diumally go through the farce of hearing them recite what parents have taught them.