TEACHERS' CONGRESS.
MEETING IX AUCKLAND. fty Telegraph.—l'rcss Association. Auckland, Yesterday. The annual meeting of the Xew Zealand Teachers' Institute has opened. A eivia welcome was extended to tho visit, ors, who came from all parts. The president Mr. Wells, spoke on education in its relation to modem pro- " blcms. He said the principal causes of social diseases were defective heredity, defect!v.' environment and defective education. Heredity determined tho eapa«ity, but environment provided the op- j portunitv. ' The speaker advocated larger play spaces at schools, kindergarten departments in the larger schools and mora attention to the physical wellbeing of the child. Fourteen years was too young an age for compulsory education to cease. Touchers should endeavor to encourage co-opurative rather than competitive methods, and schools should lie rendered attractive to the youth, should set a high ideal, and makt. tho teaching profession the noblest on earth.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8
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145TEACHERS' CONGRESS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 8
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