AIM FOR EQUALITY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 8

AIM FOR EQUALITY

EDUCATION IN DOMINjON. “THE BEST MUST BE GIVEN.” WHANGARET, June 30. “The object of the Government is to give every child the fullest equ y education,” said the Minister Edu cation, Hon. P. Fraser, when speak at an official reception tendered him extend the tenef.ts of post-primary education and the best privileges of primary education so that the children in the country schools ,nav enjoy the same facilities as those in the cities,” added the Mimstei “The very best must he given, not only in academic but in technical education as well. Handcraft not only has a cultural value equal to some acade mie forms of learning, but oiten child ren who prove their dexterity with their hands are thereby given the aptitude and interest to assimilate othe forms of education. Therefore eduea tion must be well-balanced and schools must bo well-equipped.” _ ' Mr Fraser said that in the Masterton district the people had prefened one centrally situated and uell equipped technical high school to a multiple citv of district high schools. Everywhere consolidated schools were, taking the place of one-teaclier village institutions. The demand for consolidation in the Auckland district was greater than the department could meet. Better roads and transport had made available better teachers and schools equal to anything in the city’.