EDUCATION PROBLEMS

Southland Times, Issue 18850, 16 June 1920, Page 5

EDUCATION PROBLEMS

ADDRKSS BY THK DIRKCTDR. Tf 1 K SC.'I'tOI, ADD I Pea Drilled Press Association. ,i IVFbMNDTOV. Junp 1.1. In .m address to ilv (‘own'd nf Kduc ic:iti<.n to-day, Pv Director nf Education, Dp Anderson. ■pnki' nn thp question. of raisins thn school avc from 14 to 1.1 years, which he -aid would sooner nr later hat’.' to !■•' faced. By this he in.'am rhe extension of full time tuition met tint continuation classes, winch hj p indicated went no! altogether nali-Tactory. The adoption nf any .-ich proposal would involve the re construction nf many of the acnmi ip> doth nf tlie primary schools ami continuation work. Then there we- tie’ sm-a-dier pro-sre-s of the pupil; frotn -taudard to >fnil.ard in order tliat they 111 iit(.; m rnplete rhe course more quickly. In bmdand Hie tiverace aite at which pupils completed the standards was six years and nine months, but New Zealand had not yet attained that rat". This would neccs-it ai e. no doubt, in New Zealand a double promotion .-rheme for pupils, by which some scholars would pass through a standard in six months and the remainder in twelve. Another fines, tie.n was the centralisation of secondary education in the country, particularly in reference to the hi ah schools. In the State if Ma.-sachnsc'ls. America, the number of s-dmols ha.! been largely redimed I>y thimniii-, Tl," difficulty in N<-,v Zealand was the t ran.spor; ation of children to and from the .-c'noob.