N.Z. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE
THE ANNUAL MEETING.
[Per Press Association.] Auckland, January 5. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Teachers' Institute has opened. A civic welcome was extended to the visitors who came from all parts. The President (Mr Wells) spoke of education in its relation to modern problems. Me said the principal causes of social diseases were defective heredirty, defective environment, and defective education. Heredity determin"ed capacity, but environment provided opportunity. The speaker advocated larger play-spaces at schools, kindergarten departments- in larger schools, and mOre attention to the physical well-being of the child. Fourteen years was too young an age for compulsory education to cease at. Teachers should endeavor to encourage couperative rather than competitive methods, and schools should be rendered attractive to the youth. They should set high ideals and make trie teaching profession the noblest on earth.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 6
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140N.Z. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1914, Page 6
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