EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 7 September 1916, Page 3

EDUCATION.

STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER. Per Press Association Wellington, September R. The second annual meeting of tbe Council of Education was held to-day, in camera, after the formal opening at which the Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, spoke. He said the council was on its trial. He believed it was capable of doing good work, and that the ten nit of its citffiherations would bo conducive to sound and practical educational advance. He looked, however, in consequence of certain lessons of the war and conditions that were aiising, to a great forward movement in connection with education, which would probably involve the recasting of views and educational ideas throughout the Empire. Problems would arise the solution of which would be helped by right education. There would bo a demand for higher efficiency in industrial work, as scientific and technical education would come to the front and receive that prominent place in connection with educational work which it merited. The feeling of the House of Representatives and the country was J that there was need and room for improvement in connection with the work done in the various branches of education, and they must move forward on the line of thoroughness and efficiency. As they had a national system of education, and wished to make it more efficient, it was desirable that more should be done in the way of co-ordination and the linking up of the various branches. He wanted the Council to understand that some reforms were necessary, and , that people expected reforms in cer- ; tain directions. Had the National Cabinet not determined to confine legislation to matters concerning the . war, he would have introduced legis- I latiou enabling him to give effect to | some of ids views in order to make education more practical and efficient.