PUPIL TEACHERS' EXAMS IN NEW PLYMOUTH.
TO THE EDITOR, Sib,-An incredible paragraph appeared last year in your columns stating that the examiners had to sit on infant forms to undergo examination. You did a noble duty to let light on a dark place. But a young friend of mine who sat last year, when questioned, admitted it was true. After publicity how could it recur ? Whatis pleaded ? Gross ignorance or malice prepensed A design against teaching profession, to eliminate fine physique therefrom, putting these in such cramped conditions for examination that they are foredoomed to failure ? or to discredit Taranaki pupil teachers by placing them in most unfavourable conditions at the time of trial ? Or is the spirit of some inquisitor of the dark ages come to earth again whose ingenious cruelty changes the purgatory of exam into a dread Inferno? Surely humanity and common sense should be found in our " seats of learning." But enough. So much had not been said if this stupid arrangement had not prevailed for years. The examinees are too timid to protest. Some one must do it for them. The next exam is announced. Will it happen again ? If so the victims shall have the pity of Lonq Limb.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 1 June 1900, Page 2
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