OUR EDUCATED YOUTH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3712, 15 September 1906, Page 2

OUR EDUCATED YOUTH.

A number of Christchurch representative business men, who have been interviewed by a pressman, have been poking borak at our educational system, says a Christchurch contemporary. From the opinions expressed, it would appear that the average boy when he leaves school to scratch for his living has about as much intelligence as a sheep, and imagines that 2 plus 2 make 7, and that the world is square, and Julius Caesar is still alive, and that the Rubric is a new kind ot cake, and, in fact, is a pitiable ignoramus who knows less than nothing. This is all blamed on to the methods of instruction adopted in our primary and , secondary schools which without doubt, call for radical mprovement. The present system primes a boy with much that is absolutely useless to him, and which, anyhow, he remembers nothing of when he comes into contact with the proposition of earning his own bread. What he wants is a more practical knowledge which won’t make him appear a brainless imbecile when he applies for his first billet and which will be of some help to him in the hustle of modern existence.