EDUCATION CONFERENCE
SHOULD INFANTS BE TAUGHT ARITHMETIC? CO-EDUCATION IN HIGH SCHOOLS. By Cable— Ttmi, Association—Copyright London, April 27. At the Education Conference Mr. Jackman, ex-president of the National Union of teachers, advocated that children nine or ten years old should not be taught problems in arithmetic, which took nine months to teach children of that age, but which could be taught in three weeks to children of eleven or twelve years of age, and suggested that the time thus saved could be devoted to reading.
Mr. Andrews said that Mr. Jackman's system was being used in West Australia, and' he was anxious to know why the system was not generally adopted in England. Mr. Strong, rector of Montrose Academy, said he was doubtful of the desirability of co-education in secondary schools. In Scotland girls matured more rapidly thaji boys, overweighting boys of from twelve to fifteen. Mr. Board said that New South Wales adopted many features of the Scotch system, but did not intend to make high schools co-odueational.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 29 April 1911, Page 5
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169EDUCATION CONFERENCE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 29 April 1911, Page 5
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