A MATTER OF “YARD-STICKS.”
On the .West Coast, stated the Hon. H. Atmore at the Technical School Teachers’ Conference on Wednesday, he had found a class of 67 children. To expect a teacher to discover the aptitudes of the hoys and girls in so large a class, he said, was utterly absurd. He had been informed that- an assistant teacher at. that school had been told that her services would no longer be Irequired; but he had said that her services would be required so long as any teacher was given the impossible task of teaching a class of 67 children. (Applause). In another school, added the Minister, he had been shown a very clever plasticine model of an old Maori pa, made by a boy eleven years of age, who had been classed by a previous headmaster as subnormal and unfit to be at the school. If the standard by which the children had been measured had been their aptitude in making plastieene models, instead of the usual “academic yard-stick,” that hoy would probably have been the dux of tihe school; while the present dux might have been classed as subnormal and unfit to attend (the school. (Laughter and applause).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3944, 18 May 1929, Page 1
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201A MATTER OF “YARD-STICKS.” Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3944, 18 May 1929, Page 1
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