Educational Institute

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1922, Page 3

Educational Institute

WELLINGTON, Alay 17. j At the meeting of the New Zealand ’ I Educational Institute the report of a | special committee on school curricula ■ j was presented. Air W. If. Newton (Auckland) ox- . i plained that the principal point made ' was tin* need lor better co-ordination - in the system to give the pupil practically continuous schooling Ironi the • 'primary elements as far as the pupils i I could go. The speaker warned the -I teachers against creating watertight. , compartments, authorities dealing with j each branch. Tf another compartment ' was created the last stage of the I schools would lie worse than the first. ! Art- C. T. A sell man (Christchurch) : suggested that the time was not oppor- ■ tune to introduce the junior high 'j school. It would entail expense, which \ would mean withdrawing money that was in uch needed for the primary schools. i The president. Air J. E. Purchase. ■ I suggested that they should lay down . ! their ideal and leave it to the authori- ’ | tics to determine when it should he m- ' troduced. Mention, was made of a report hv ! the A 1 Blister's sub-committee. winch ■ was very similar to the committee’s i-e- ---. j port, and it was suggested that the . I two should he considered together.