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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1927, Page 2

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Sooner or later there will have to he a thorough overhaul of post-primary education, on the lines now being carried out in Great Britain. It is very desirable indeed tliat a child’s educaJtion should not be interrupted until he is well into adolescence, for which purpose the raising of the school age lias been advocated by some; but are we certain that in our secondary, technical, and district high schools we are attaining the best means of adolescent development? These further tasks will not be achieved next year, nor the year after; nor should they be attempted in many cases without much discussion. But we trust we have mentioned enough to show that educationally we cannot yet rest on our oars. It is ever true that a child cannot have too much education of the right kind ; but this remains always a problem, and there is always the task of finding out/ in what true and efficient education consists,—Dunedin “ Star.” Whatever its opponents may say and think about the Government, they have to admit that it has been progressive and courageous in attempts to improve the asset which the country has in the railways. Nowhere has it shown the result of a firmer hand or a keener grasp of the necessities of the moment than in the persistency with which it has attacked the staffing problems. It has made an honest and effectual effort to rid the service of the reproach which has been so ' hurled at it from the outside, that it offers no scope to brains and initiative, and in the main the provisions of this latest piece of legislation seeks to carry that good work even further. In this matter the Department should have the support of the public—and, indeed, has it in those places where the people have not allowed their good judgment to be eluded by parochialism, and their sense of injustice obscured by selfinterest,— “ gtar,’ , '