TOO MANY CLASSES IN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 59, 1 June 1927, Page 13

TOO MANY CLASSES IN TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

MINISTER OUTSPOKEN REVISION NECESSARY Press Association. PALMERSTON, To-da> "TT seems to me that the whole . question of technical education will have to be revised. Wherever I go there is a continual cry about technical schools being overcrowded. If you are continually adding new classes of course they will be overcrowded. We must have some limit to the number of classes organised.”

Such were the words of the Hon. R. A. Wright, Minister of Education, when replying to a request from the committee of the technical school for increased accommodation to meet the demand of intending students. The chairman stressed the tremendous growth of the school since 1924, stating that teaching had to be carried on upstairs on the landing and a number of new classes were waiting to be formed.

The Minister supplemented his remarks by adding: “Technical schools were not instituted to take every halfdozen people who come along and want to form a class, and this is going on all over New Zealand. It seems the directors of technical schools run the boards and want to build big schools. Technical schools were originally founded with the object of taking primary school children and giving them, if they preferred it. an academic or technical education. We have got away from that, and the system will have to be revised from A to Z.”