SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3984, 15 August 1929, Page 1

SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE

“I think that as means of transport improve, and as the housing problem finds solution increasingly in the garden suburb, the tendency of the next half-century will be to build more and more day schools in the country in the midst of 30-aere playing fields, the ideal set up by the Board of Education for schools of 500 people. 'The influence of the country, be it mountain, moor, or river, or mere meadow-land, should be within the reach of all British children,” said Miss Lucy A. Lowe, headmistress of Leeds (girls’ High School, in an address, reported in the Yorkshire Post. “I see, too, buildings of a simpler, perhaps oven of a less permanent structure, .with unrestricted provision of light find air and far mope space than bithe(rtq for the individual development of head and hand. Libraries, art-rooms, craft-rooms, rooms for music and drama, will girow to be more important than class-rooms, I believe, and I should not be surprised if, 50 years hence, the item of desks, as we know them, disappears from the estimates for the furniture of a new school. I suggest that with the broadening of a curriculum and of an examination system in which academic, aesthetic, practical and physical subjects have their tame place, it may not be unusual to find the head mistress of- a large girls’ secondary school a specialist in art or in music, in domestic science, or in physical culture —no super-specialist,