Illustrating the wide scope of a teacher's responsibilities, outside the school, which he said were in some ways more important than study, Mr James pniminnnd at the Auckland Grammar Old Boys’ dinner, put the case well from the teacher’s viewpoint. One oh) hnv’s father told his sort that i{ was far more important to learn to kick with his left foot, than to pass the matriculation .exam. “What we ha ve got to do is to teach the boy that it is eciuallv important, to pass matriculation as kick with the left foot, because if he does not matriculate the father will kick with both feet.
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Otaki Mail, 8 October 1923, Page 3
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