Home Lessons.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 98, 28 March 1885, Page 2

Home Lessons.

" At a recent meeting Jbf the ft brtlt Cant^ibuEy Education Board,' one of the , members brought before the Board the case of a little girt who recently died at Rangipra,. He, said .she .had been working with all her. might ., for a coming examination, and <jjd well, but it was too much fother. "Before the e?amiuatltin canio sl«e had to relinguish'h'er'tas^'s '; she fell ill, and died of brain f even Her talk, while m delirium, was all about her tasks, and no oue who knew the particulars of the case could doubt that her ilhiesa arid its slad . conclusion' was brought on by ovcr-\york. After having discussed the subject at some length he inoved^.TJiat: cpngequent'.;u"ji6n the general complaint against home lessons by parents and others, teachers be [directed, t.o;confine such work to.cQmmitting to liicthbry th'e.oiiihiplication arid other, tkblesj weig&t'B : and r ' ineaktf res^ " i-dies \iii syntax, etc., or poetry to the -more adi vanced classes, m such easy portions as could' neiiherin jure^ not could be l reasonably ;objected ,to." > ; As jan : amendment it ; was proposed—" That- while the Board is of -that a moderate amount of home work is iiecessary toenab'le cliifdren to make reasonable progress,. .it, strongly disapproves of any excess m that direction, and desires.that each.t.eacher should exercise careful discrimmktion so as to avoid ovei-work." The amendment was carried. < v