EDUCATIONAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3505, 17 June 1920, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL.

D RAIs‘I_NG or‘ 5011001. AGE. I WEI.I.II\’GTO.\-'_, June 15. l In an 7.{(l(l1'0:~'5 to the Council of I«](]uleation today the Director of Education (Dr Anderson) spoke on the question of raising‘ the school age from 1-} to .15 years, which he said would sooner or ziter have to be t'a<:.ed. By this he meant extension of the full time tuition, and no: continuation classes, which he indicated were not altogether safisfztctoiy. Adoption of nny such proposal would involve reconstruction of many of the activities both of primary schools and continuation work. Then there was the speedier progress of pupils from =l-un(l:‘.rd to stanrlard, in order thnl thte_\' niight complee their course more quickly. In England the average age at which pupils entered stand-.u-d I_. was six years and nine Inonths, but New Zenland had not _\_'l"l at ::.incJ that rate. This would nece:sitat.e_. no doubt, in New Zealand, 2 double }"-romotion scheme for pupils, by wliich some .'<cllolai's would pass through :1 st:+l)(lm'd in six months and the remainder in twelve months. Another qnesttion was the centmlis:-ntion of secondary education in the country, particularly in reference to District High Schools. In the ‘State of Mas;<ac}lusctts, in America, the number of schools had been largely reduced by Tllis mezms. The ditficulty in New Zenland \\‘:l.< the transportation of children to and from school. "