PRIMER TO UNIVERSITY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 646, 25 February 1914, Page 3

PRIMER TO UNIVERSITY.

EDUCATION IN STRAIGHT LINE. STRONG FOUNDATION IN COUNTRY A moat interesting letter was read at Wednesday's meeting of the Auckland Education Board from Mr J. W. Tibbs, headmaster of the Grammar School. "We bava had many congratulations," wrote Mr Tibbs. "from vari ous parts of the Dominion on the success of our boys in the recent examination for entrance scholarships to the university, andl think it is only fair that the schoolß of your board, which sent them to us, should share with ourselves the honour of having educated them." He supplied a list showing the place which each successful scholar held in the list at his primary school: First Wark worth, second Motukaraka, eighth Mt. Albert, tenth Mt. Eden, twelfth Avondale, fifteenth Pukekohe, nineteenth Lucas Creek, twenty-first Cambridge, twenty - second Beresford street, twenty-fifth Paparata, twenty-eighth Newton East, twerty-ninth Northcote " I have been asked," Mr Tibbs commented, "how it 5b that the ochool has been so successful in this feature of its work. The explanation seems to me to be quite eimple—it is that the school lies on the straight line which connects primary and university education —in other words, it ib that, at our end of the Dominion these three branches of the national system of education are working in complete unison." "I also wish to draw your attention," he said in conclusion "to the large contribution which the country schools have made to this success. In this connection it should be remembered that three'or fourfof our' Rhodes scholars came from country schools."