INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 522, 30 November 1912, Page 3

INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS.

We direct attention Co the inset issued by the International Correspondence Schools, in which a considerable amount of information is given concerning their various courses of instruction. This institution is now widely recognised as a means by which ambitious young men and women can obtain a thorough training in the profession of sunjects in which they are interested. At the annual dinner of the Wellington I.C.S. Students' Association, on Wednedsay evening last, Mr W H. Murton, city engineer, Wellington, who is recognis ed as one of the leading engineers of the Dominion, spoke in very high terms of the work of this institution. In proposing the toast of the International Correspondence Schools, he expressed himself as follows:—"I realise that the International Correspondence Schools furnish a means of education to the young man who has arrived at an age somewhat beyond that at which tie can be properly suited in, say, a technical school. They enabled such a man to qualify himself for work of a technical character in which he might be engaged. There could be no doubt that schools that did this were worthy of very great support. Public men should take an interest in fostering and helping in every way the work of the various branches. The schools enabled a young man to acquire a betterment, not only for himself, but also for his employar and his country. Recently there had been a great discussion in England on the lack of technical education, and it had been stated that the superior industrial advance oi Gemany was due to the greater spread of technical education. The I.C.S. overcame some of the difficulties in the way of technical education by enabling students to get instruction in their own homes. The education that was most needed in New Zealand wa3 technical education. It was his opinion that in the public schools at the present time they had too many subjects. What was requried was the education which would be given after a young man had decided definitely to adopt some particular course of work. To be successful such education must be popular—obtainable at a minimum of expense and inconvenience. That the I.C.S. was doing a great amount of good watj proved by the number of men who were taking the coupes in England where technical schools ahounded.