EDUCATION REPORT

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1930, Page 5

EDUCATION REPORT

AUCKLAND CRITICISM. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association AUCKLAND, July 24. I Auckland Grammar School Board | after considering Hon. Atmore’s edu- ! cation report ,resolutioned that the efficiency of the great secondary j schools of Auckland will inevitably be i gravely impaired by the proposed j changes. The essence of the system would be a levelling down and complete centralisation of authority (in Wellington. The Board considered equality of opportunity for all classes and the resulting pre-eminence of the most intellectual pupils, regardless of class, to the essence of democracy, and that the results of Auckland Grammar Schools are the best tribute to the existing control system. Auckland Education Board considered the report at a special meeting this morning and resolutioned that the report proposing centralised con•ipol of education was not in the best interests of New Zealand and would deny to the people the right of electing those whom they wished, to govern education. Mr A. Barns (Chairman) said if he did not know the Atmore report had been written by two members of the Education Department staff, he would have thought it bad been written by Mark Twain, when it referred to the “dignified and important place Boards would occupy in the new system.”