DEGREES AND TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 April 1927, Page 13

DEGREES AND TEACHERS

’TOO MUCH UNIVERSITY” PRIMARY-SCHOOL NEEDS “An academic degree is not necessary to make a good primary school teacher,” declared Mr. If. S. W. King at to-day’s meeting of the Education Board. The board agreed with him. In a memorandum the Education Board had written that it had felt, for aome time, that there was a danger of the instruction of Training College students becoming more nearly allied to tha needs of the university than to the needs of the schools.” The Department suggested that the principal of the college should be asked to arrange that lecturers should be given opportunity as much as possible “to frequent contact with school work.” The board’s co-operation was asked. ‘That seems to be a step in the right direction,” said the chairman, Mr. A. Burns. Mr. King: I hope the board will cooperate. There is a great tendency y" Principals and headmasters to rets n at primary schools students tak- *’ g university courses. Too much attention is paid to university work. A Member: What about district high school teachers ? Mr. King: They are in a different Position and they should declare their intentions. I am talking of primary school teachers who do not need acanornic degrees. The board decided to give the Department its co-operation.