HOPE FOR EDUCATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1895, 26 October 1918, Page 4

HOPE FOR EDUCATION.

AVITII PEACE IX SIGHT. “Xow that there is plain evidence that Ihe troubled night of danger and war storm is passing away, we can look forward with some confidence to obtaining a larger vote for education," said the .Minister of Education (the lion. •). A. Hunan) to a deputation recently. He remarked that throughout Ihe world it was complained that while Parliaments agreed to Ihe raising of immense sums of money on things of destruction, they were loth to vote enough for Hie vital national constructive work of education. While all classes of people in various countries were saying that heller education had lo lie the basis nf Ihe new social and industrial and commercial order, Ihe obtaining of Hu; money uecc.'-ary (o achieve those national ideals continued to he difficult. The position throughout Xew Zealand- —as shown in reports of meetings of branches of the Education institute, education hoards, industrial associations, and other bodies, as well as in countless Idlers to editors —is that: people avlio see clearly the need of larger grants of money for education look to the .Minister for a supply. They emphasise the need of money to make the teaching profession more attractive to bright-young folk; money for the improvement of schools and playgrounds; in short, money to assure a maximum of all-round efficiency. The Minister looks to Cabinet, Cabinet looks (o Parliament, Parliament looks to the people, of whom various groups make requests for a huge aggregate of money for all maimer of public works. As a rule, the pressure for such works during a session is greater and more insistent than for education —and Parliament works along the line of greatest pressure.