“EDUCATION IS CONCERN OF WHOLE COMMUNITY"

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 227, 14 December 1927, Page 8

“EDUCATION IS CONCERN OF WHOLE COMMUNITY"

BUSINESSMEN INTERESTED NEW SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION “It is encouraging to nate that the business men of Auck and interesting themselves in the aT* tinies of the youth being educated in secondary schools to-day," Brother Borgia. director o» tl I 9 Sacred Heart College, at the an' nual prize-giving in the Town Ha,l Concert Chamber last evening. "It is a sign people realise that -h work of education should not be C ,~ S fined to teachers and the Department,” continued the directo “Education is the intimate concern dip the whole of the community. Although the new Auckland Educational Asfd ciation has been founded ostensibly v the vocational guidance of you*h'« seems to me that its possibility* dl usefulness are very much wider.” “Any movement that is likely to bring the schools into touch who the larger life of the city, to brino pupils and teachers Into contact with the men who are most activ. in civic life, should have the whole-hearted support of ever/ friend of education.

"Another body that, I believe, is ce . titled to play an important part in edn. cation in this country is the Asso ia. tion of the Registered Secondarr Schools, founded quietly and unosten. tatiously in Wellington last nor y. This will include all the non-State secondary schools of the Dominloi "The object of the association is to co-operate with the Education Department and the university in all matters for the advancement of education, aid to safeguard and represent the special interests of the registered secondary schools themselves. Up to this, the ip. terests, the special circumstances, and even the importance of these schcols have not met with the recognition they were entitled to on the part of the Education Department and the Government. But they were Them sell?* largely to blame for this state of affairs. “Through mere inertia they failed to establish the one legitimate, effective instrument to express tlei will and make '■their power felt. Now that the association has been established I am confident that by its annual conference and particularly by its sectional activities throughout the year in preparation for the conference, it will be able to make a definite contribution toward the development of a real national system of educator in New Zealand.”