THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES,
Acinu'ui.TUiui, Education'
When speaking feccniiy at the prizegiving ceremony at the Feilding Agricultural High -School, the principal (Mr i.i. -1. Wilil) quoted Mr Frank Tate, of Melbourne, as enunciating “tliiit the chief purpose of secondary schools is to train the many for life, ratliet tlihii the few for the university.’’ Snell a striking truism has a special significance ill connection with the scheme for merging high schools and technical schools under one authority, a method that exactly accords with Mr Tate’s contention—training the many for life. This conclusion is all the more convincing in the light of Mr Tate's expressed opinion that ’'no subject of education gives more abundant opportunities for educational training thail does -agriculture, while it. has the special advantage that it i‘ readily linked tip with the life that is goiiig oil all round flit* school.’’— “Taranaki Daily News.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1926, Page 2
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146THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES, Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1926, Page 2
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