THE FORCING SYSTEM IN SCHOOLS.
To the Editor op the Nblsojs" Evening Mail. Sir — I noticed the letter from "Paterfamilias Rusticus" in your late issue and agree with him on the educational opinions expressed by him. Just fancy, Mr. Editor, my boy came home from the Government School one' day with this sum on his slate : Multiply 96,789 by three-eights of itself, and aid thereto 696. This boy is not ten years of age and I would uot under any circunistauee crowd his memory with auy abstruse science or with sums of the kind mentioned above. I write this letter because that boy has often been kept in school and made to write fifty or one hundred line3 on his slate after the boys are out and at play. He has not known what the writing 1 was for and has crime home quite exhausted in intellect and muscular action. I am, &c, Officium. I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 153, 2 July 1869, Page 2
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155THE FORCING SYSTEM IN SCHOOLS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 153, 2 July 1869, Page 2
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