RURAL LIFE.
COUNTRY’S OPPORTUNITIES
LONDON, July 6. In a speech at the Empire Educational Conference, Mr Frank Tate, the Victorian Director of Education, declared that small rural schools with one or two teachers formed a most important part of the educational system, yet the standards of these schools were often lower than those of the city. The rural teacher, he added, possessed greater opportunities than the town teacher for cultivating the seeing eye, the hearing ear, and the understanding heart. Many Victorian rural teachers realised and grasped this opportunity with most remarkable results. Modern farming was a highly-skilled occupation. The farmer must be intelligent, well-informed and adaptable, so that his education was, perhaps, more important than that of the city operative. The chief problem, however. was the production of good teachers who understood and loved the life of the countryside.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3669, 23 July 1927, Page 4
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140RURAL LIFE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3669, 23 July 1927, Page 4
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