SCHOOL ENTRANCE AGE
NOT A NEW PROBLEM. OPINION OF 60 YEARS AGO. Apparently the dispute about the school entrance age is merely a revival of a problem that existed in bygone years. Speaking at the celebration of the diamond jubilee of the Taranaki Education Board on Thursday, the Hon. R. Masters, Minister for Education, quoted a report on the schools of 1874 by Mr Benjamin Wells, first chairman of the board and honorary inspector. The Minister read through a frank criticism of the scholastic system and then, with a twinkle in his eye, added that, " last, but not least, Mr Wells said that too many children were being sent to school at too young an age." When the laughter had subsided, Mr Masters said it seemed that even in those days they had their ideas about the age children should go to school. Later, Mr D. . McAllum, a- former chairman of the board, contended that children should not commence school before the age of seven. The present restrictions on the school age had effected a saving of £180,000, it was said, and he suggested to the Minister that the amount saved should be spent in giving a full ration of milk to every child in need of it.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 4
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208SCHOOL ENTRANCE AGE Marlborough Express, Volume LXVIII, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 4
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