SCHOOLS IN SAMOA

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1926, Page 3

SCHOOLS IN SAMOA

REPORT COMMENDED

LONDON. Dec. 24. The "Journal of Education" devotes some space to the annual report of the New Zealand Government as mandatory for Western Samoa. Alter full consideration the Permanent Mandates Commission has expressed the view that the report submitted is a model of what such it report should be. ••It is with real interest. therefore (says the journal), that we turn to those sections of the report which deal with education. Two things strike us at once as extraordinarily satisfactory—two things which, perhaps, are really one at hottom: first, the school attendance is practically 100 per cent, and secondly, there is no illiteracy, as almost every Samoan can read and write in his native tongue. Even our nun lavomod land does not come up to so high a standard as this. The policy of the administration in regard to education is not only excellent in itsclt. but very well stated. That policy is to educate tiie Samoans to become Europeans in their outlook, but to make tl cm better Samoans, with a pride of race and a love of country i .::•, a (•<*- sire to promote their material wealth hv increased efforts to develop their lands.’ ” . For the 1920 issues "The Journal is arranging a series of articles desciiplive o 7 tl'- schools and universities in Great Britain. Each article will deal, among other aspects, with the development of the particular type of institution concerned, its place in the educational system of the country recent advances made and experiments tried and the probable direction oi fmther development.