REVISION OF EDUCATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1634, 7 November 1916, Page 2

REVISION OF EDUCATION.

A SERIES of resolutions, drawn up by a conference representative of the live associations concerned, have received the approval of the councils of I lie Classical, English, Geographical, Historical, and Modern Language Associations in Britain. They are intended to form a. basis for common action by the five associations ns well as, it is hoped, for co-operation with representatives of the mathematical and naluml sciences and of other elements in education. The resolutions are as follows: —(i.) it is essential that any reorganisation of our educational system should make adequate provision for both humanistic and scientific studies, (ii.) Prematura specialisation on any one particular group of studies, whelher humanistic or scientific, to the exclusion of all others is a serious danger not only to education generally, but to the studies concerned, (iii.) Humanistic education implies the adequate study of language and literature, geography, and history, which in each case should, at the appropriate stake of education, go beyond the pupil’s own language and country. (iv.) In all reform of education it must never be forgotten that the first object is the training of human beings in mind and character, as citizens of a free country, and that any technical preparation of boys and girls for a particular profession, occupation, or work must he consistent with this principle. (v.) Subject to the foregoing principles, the associations concerned would welcome a comprehensive

revision of national education from the point of view of present needs.