EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4324, 29 January 1875, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Though Sir. Lee and Mr. Graham may not act so agreeably to the teachers as they desire, still the respect of the teachers for them is of such a character that they will be very sorry after haying made some advances towards a mutual understanding, to separate. A little intercourse with some of my fellow-teachers has informed mo of the general opinion they hold of the Inspector of Schools and the Secretary to the Board of Education; and this opinion is, that they are very executive officers; —and efficiency, it may be added, is a quality much admired by teachers. We can vouch for their having made very successful efforts to improve the condition of education in the province of ’Wellington, though we think, at the same time, that we have been unduly tasked in obtaining this Improvement. The history of the Board shows that if it exists now to remove its executive officers, it is owing to that Secretary whom they are now going to remove. The inadequacy of the means at the Board’s disposal, the entirely now system of public education, the indifference of the people to the success of that system, are such great difficulties that they could oniy have been overcome by the exercise of the most businesslike methods, the greatest economy, and the most industrious perseverance of an expert secretary. And it we consider the circumstances under which the present Inspector of Schools was appointed, we see an equally grave objection to his removal, altogether apart from the serious disturbance of an excellent of school instruction, namely, as you have said, “ a breach of good faith." It was shown in a previous letter that the economy of this combination of offices was paltry, and it may be safely inferred that the management would be very inefficient.— I am, &c., A Schoolmaster.