PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION.
“EXERCISES A MALKIN INFLUENCE.” “There is no doubt that the proficiency examination exercises a malign inlluence on our schools,” said the Taranaki inspectors of schools in their annual report to the Education Board last week. “Undue importance attached to success in securing certificates of proficiency, which represent only part of the pupils’ work, has a narrowing effect: on educational activities. The proposed raising ot £; the standard led immediately to a revival of the evil of coaching pupils before or after school hours. However, in some schools, we are pleased to hud that many teachers, our leading headmasters among them, have ceased to regard 190 per cent, of passes as the ultimate goal of education. It is hoped that this attitude will lie universally adopted, so that all teachers may become educators rather than mere instructors.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4443, 24 April 1930, Page 3
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137PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4443, 24 April 1930, Page 3
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