SCHOLARS AND EXAMS.
VIEWS OF HARROW HEAD NONSENSE OF LABELLING (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and A. Z. Press Association) Reed. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Professor Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow school, declared be fore the British Association for the Advancement of Science that, though the time had not yet arrived, it would be the correct course to abolish external examinations in secondary schools for the average boy and girl, confining them to serve only as avenues to the universities. Every teacher was aware of the nonsense of the contention that everybody was alike, and ought therefore to be labelled with the same labels. The logical course would be to award two certificates, one maintaining that the pupil had not lowered the existing system, which caused no difficulty to the boy or girl of average academic ability, and the second offering proof that the pupil takes the course of education most suited in each particular case.
“I believe we should have an educational axiom that there should never be any examination for a child before he is 15, except by his own teachers.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 9
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