SECONDARY EDUCATION.
Referring to the abuses of the present endowment system, and the need of more attention being paid to the proper allocation of secondary endowment money, a writer in the New Zealand Times of Tnursday last says : It never seems to have occurred to our members of Parliament that his could be made the grandest country in the world tor the higher education of the people if there were but proper organisation of the system under which we are now working, We have the money available under our magnificent endowment scheme to bring out all Sixth Standard primary pupils to the secondary schools, and secondary pupils to the University and technical classes (when established) free, and this could be accomplished without any additional expense to the State. Unfortunately our, public men are perfectly indifferent to the tremendous scope there lies in this direction, but it is high time they were stirred to a real appreciation of the importance of this question. The early statesmen in this country endowed education with a liberal hand. The actual figures are startling and veiy intere;ting. In 1579 the position of our education reserves show thus Estimated Acres. Value. £ Primary reserves ... 513,497 986,931 Secondary reserves 202,987 382,082 University & higher education ... 532,081 467,258 This gives us a capital of over one million eight hundred thousand pounds set apart by the State for educational purposes. Probably no country in the world has been better endowed, but this money is not being properly aplied. In addition, it must be remembered that 5 per cent of every area of Crown land sold in New Zealand has been set aside for educational purposes, and also that during those years there has been an enormous increase in the value of land throughout the colony, making the total amount of our endowments still larger. What, then, could we not accomplish in the direction of secondary education with this sum properly administered.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 146, 13 January 1903, Page 5
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