MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1059, 25 August 1930, Page 8

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION.

Sir,— Most of our present-day trouble can be attributed to excessive regulations and statutes. Although the abandonment of compulsory military training will do some good, there are lots of other matters that require im-

mediate attention. In the prosperous davs of New- Zealand it for anyone who had neglected schooling in youth to set to and. • learning the skilled crafts, qualify n registration: but today. hI Ja eB son has matriculated, be is forbUWen the skilled trades. Matr:'cull« should be kept for the purpose m which it was intended —entrance to tn university—while the examination. lor the skilled trades snould 1 - , strictly on a practical basis, so m in any of these examinations _ t cent, of the master craftsmen m hu __ ness could pass. Today these ex * ‘ tions block progress, and I am quite safe in saying that if the P™eUsm* chemists, opticians, dentists, acc > ants, lawyers, etc., were to sit for them entrance examinations tomoiro • . per cent, of them would shave tl ® As for matriculation being an i e jj tion of brain power, one nngnt argue that the thistles and otner weeds which blossom ea T* s superior to the asparagus or fruits which require time to matu Mr. Atmore may be doing ais D _ _ n get things righted by bringing his Education Reform Bill- but - not abolish matriculation, and * all effort to push the younger gener tion into the skilled crafts. /V” little trades boards and associatio - tradespeople should be abolished, an examination based entirely on P tieal knowledge of the < ' vel £ <la \ v thf quirements of business should be order of the day. lWirV f HAROLD SOHMiW-