IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
EDUCATION IN DOMINION. . POSITION TO BE REVIEWED. Gisborne, December 10. At a civic reception this morning the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister for Education, made an important statement in regard to secondary education. The Minister said that New Zealand was ahead of any other country in the Empire in its provision for post-primary education. The high schools had become the peo-. pie’s schools.-Over 20,000 children were in these secondary schools. It was necessary to take stock and see how it stood. The teaching in the high, schools was unduly influenced by ’the matriculation- examinations, as only one in twelve pupils went on to the university; and the professors’ university examination was' not the right objective. It gave a bias the wrong way. There was serious overlapping between the secondary and' technical schools. It would be good to review the position. He had asked Mr Frank Tate, Director of Education in Victoria, who was visiting New Zealand in February, to give the Government a re-' port on the whole subject.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2822, 11 December 1924, Page 3
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171IMPORTANT STATEMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2822, 11 December 1924, Page 3
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