EDUCATION IS LIFE
BROAD VIEW ADVOCATED LESS VOCATIONAL WORK In the opinion of Professor A. B. Fitt, of Auckland, education should be a study of every-day life and not restricted to the narrow confines of school training. Education and school training were not synonymous, he told the Auckland Educational Society last evening. Apart from tho obvious duties of parents and the need of good home environment it was the duty of each section of the community to consider the effect ol its activities on the rising generation. There were about 50 members of the society present. Professor Fitt advanced the opinion that the need to-day was not for more but less vocationalism in education. In this respect there lay a duty, not yet fully recognised, upon every vocational body, whether industrial or professional, to take an active part in providing the means for training maturing youth to carry on in their callings when education in its more general sense was completed. If vocational training were taken up in that spirit a great advance would be
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 16
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175EDUCATION IS LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 16
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