EDUCATIONAL STATEMENT.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 8, 6 July 1886, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL STATEMENT.

(From the Examiner.) Win s the annual statement in connection ! ; with the ilejiartinent of olucatwn was j i announced, all interested iu education j wi re alive to the interest likely to he j attached to it. being ns it was in the | ; hands of one of tho best authorities on | i edne.''.uon in the colony—-Sir Robert I j : The stat'incut shows nil tho ' evidences of a master hand and is progi n.mt with valuable suggestions. Iu Icgimting the statement the Premier dealt I j.| ■).. ft. t place w ith the work f the 1 New Zealand University, pointing out i that that bhou'. l be not an examining i iy. it pro • t... but a le.o'hi; ■ bodv. i if i. illy good results weie to be derived i 1;, in it. Si. Robert Stout wLciy aug- I o.vted that the University roll- ,’<■» in eieh «tl the four principal towns might ; i How s)<«ial work, uud biiggestao Duni aim ns a held for medicine, Cnrisit lurch i t r inineraloer ami agriculture. Willing- | ton for pttliiics, law and history ; and ‘ ». ..:-,nd for land and maritime engin'firing, physical geography rr 1 as- I I tn nomv. Tho failing point , f the ' ndm y schools was touched n the ;.. .t that .. euro f>r v:. .a ry between tLeui and the piimary schools on 1 on, hand and the University tin; other was entirely ov. rlnol.ed. Tlti' primary seltctols,although stiil far # hind, are showing si jus of steady iinpr.n incut. The suggf non that the inspect >rs should ' < |>oriodieallv changed is one winch in;.-', h given etfeet to sooner or i it<r, if th" re typing of scliools with tin i enlia.-itits of the inspector nt to he m, kit'd, niul teachers »;v Ut ltav • freer scope for thoxxcrcise of their un< noumbtvr, d individuality and personal ability. li. . jde . tho chances of favoritism and mid ie influence ill certain quarters would •he 1 by each a «or e. Sir Robert 1t... - ..' stress on the advisability of devoting more attention to ,'.o technical education, it> New /,i hint I i.-. to be thi> home of in lust ry, while ho remarks that it is more important to h . better teachers in the c.umtiy than in the vn where the other advun--1 tag, s are so miieli greater, lie urgeil Khi at ion Do li to provide for the no-ipti.-i'ion t>f commodious playgrounds a- a means not o i!y of encouraging the

phy-ieal dev<. -pinent of pupil , but of j i..moling true democracy by destroying el . feeling, lie believed they would .- ■ ii -Co noding-books fttr tho schools ptepand in the colony. A school of fort ling i- tn be established. In the lit . of the idea that New Zealand must mainly remain a farming country it it . -.ingested that the County Councils should t .-.abl U salf-.>upp.>rting nto.U-1 farms. It ) roposetl tn empower County Councils, and niunleiptl b . lies to found Schools. Ii- i ged the extension of the school i rr due- 1 this year l.y l.to'tO, pafy due it i ,1 in ! t i the anticipation that flic local boh s will largely contribute towards