The faihape Daily Times TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 140, 16 February 1915, Page 4

The faihape Daily Times

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

AND WAIMASINO .ADVOCATE (With which ia incorporated The Tai hape Post no Waimarino News.)

It-was Taihape's loss Ihat a much larger number of residents did not-attend the meeting in the Technical School last night to hoar what the chairman of the Wanganni Education Board liad to say about technical education. Although the smallness of his audience must have acted as a deterrent to enthusiasm, Mr. Pirani's address distinctly disclosed how solicitous he was that the legislative machinery for the continuous education of our youth and people should be used for the greatest possible good. His address was in the form of a most interesting and instructive resume of the nature and scope of technical schools, the knowledge imparted, and also of the methods of instituting classes and of their conduct. We cannot believe that the residents of this town and district appraise the education that technical schools furnish at anything less than people in other parts of the Dominion and of the cultured world, and we think their interest was in no way measurable with, or in proportion to ; the number who attended to hear such, a speaker as Mr. Pirani is, on a subject in which he is most deeply interested. if there arc parents, young men or lads so thoughtless or indifferent as not to set any value upon what thepeople of the Dominion are being taxed to give to them in order to lit them for holding their own in the progress of nations, they are reminded that it will not do in the near future for a tradesman to be just what he is to-day. These technical and continuation schools, in one form or another, have been established in nil countries noted for their progressiveness, and the man in any country that cannot apply science or art, or both, to his vocation in life will be left to drudgery and lowest wages. Why can the Dutch get. higher prices for their butter and a vci-y much larger yield per cow at a less cost "we can? Simply because the State has helped those engaged m dairy-farming to

to some extent have Thai knowledge compulsory. 11 is because we have some practical experience that, we urge fanners to persuade their sons to take that course of! education that lays at their doors, that will not only make successful farmers more successful, but will also make scientifically educated mm of them, such as can only take the place of leaders of the people- in the very near future. That the schoolmaster is abroad in the Wanganui Education District is amplified in the fact that it brings that education on r people/most need to their very doors. In no other part of New Zealand. are th e people foil owed lip by the purveyor of learning as we" are, and yet/ while in much snialler places hundreds of pupils are offering we have hot been able to get together that number to qualify for teachers and ''capitation to enable classes being formed. We understand, that an. effort is to be made to establish classes in Taihape, and we cannot too strongly urge farmers, in their own. interests and for the future success of their sons, to communicate with the headmaster of our public school, Mr/ Thurston, or with ili\ M'Rae, of the High School, who, we believe, has generously come forward to act as organiser. Mr. Pirani's address is given, fairly fully in another column.