THE EDUCATION COMMISSION
EVIDENCE OF KELSON TEACHEBS. By Telegraph—Preae iMoeUtion. Wellington, Friday. Giving evidence before the Education Commission, Miss Lorimer, principal of i Nelson Girls' College, said that she considered that the primary school syllabus was on good up-to-date lines, but needed for its interpretation higher teaching ability than formerly. The training now given should produce a more selfreliant type of character. It would be desirable to eliminate some arithmetic, especially in the case of girls. Her staff was always fighting against colonial accent. There was sometimes a good deal of affectation in the pronunciation in private schools. Mr. Harry Fowler, principal of Nelson Boys' College, regretted the tendency of parents to keep children at secondary schools two years only. Something should be clone to get pupils from the primary to the secondary schools a year earlier than they did on an average now.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 47, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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144THE EDUCATION COMMISSION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 47, 13 July 1912, Page 5
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