COUNCIL OF EDUCATION

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1926, Page 4

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION

ADDRESS BY MINISTER. I 'WELLINGTON, June ■!. ' I The Council of Education met today. The lion. R. A. Wright, .Minister of Education, said that in spite of (pinions recently expressed, it was impossible to divorce education from economics. The cost of educations Las risen inn 13s in ihe eighties to C 3 a bead now. It was no use complaining, but people were beginning to a-k whether the system would stand llie strain of the growing demands upon it. lie. pointed out that while the average skilled or unskilled workman had little left after paying rent and bare necessities, the question of earning a living pressed upon children as soon as they reached the sixlli standard. This was another indication ol the close relation between economics and education. Mr Cauglilcy, Director of Education, said that- technical education had not yet found its true objective. I lie 1 ime had come to take stock of the position. Hitherto each director had been allowed to work out a. policy of li is own, hut what was wanted now core teohnicHl high school boards and a

settled policy. No longer must pupils be made to work to the equipment provided. The time had come to arrange tho work most suitable for each pupil. It was resolved to ask the Department In revise the conditions under which hoarding allowances were granted scholarship holders. “That the Minister should he advised to esttihlish in centres of over 13,000 people at least one primary school for girls in Standards f In VI, staffed entirely hy women,” was moved hy Mr J. R. Kirk.