EDUCATION REFORM.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1920, Page 5

EDUCATION REFORM.

AN IMPORTANT ERA AHEASI is FAR-REACHING PROPOSALS.^ ' i'4J By Telegraph.—Press Auoelattyn. *«'s Wellington, Lagt .%fc& An address on the new phase of Itfi cational progress now opening un W given by the Hon. C. J: Parr (MMWj of Education) at to-day's sitting ofrdj Council of Education, f r n He said a new era was comment in education in the ipomiriion, y&k must be brought up to the statuUdfiji other countries. A suggestion haqV tag made, that either the Council Of 'Bfl H tion should be abolished' or ii ahott) M altered in the direction of the-JM stitution of a permanent executive fhdj sitting in Wellington,; whose duHp( would be to advise the Minister tto, time to time. He wa# not aJtogiMM in favor of a control 'board of «4|gfe tion of the type suggested. ; -. The Minister referred sympatfotUMtf to the approaching retirement' Anderson, the Director of Eduo»tk(L ; . and pointed out that it WU t&fjtfo of the department to .look oat h§~Ji worthy successor. It might be to get an ideal man, but really it «E a. matter of life and death for the Jn cation system of the Dominion. It Vm manifestly -necessary to pay £ <MHji salary, for the work wag not adetyunjl remunerated in relation to the lapTO ance of the job. \J s He agreed with Dr. Anderson u fora urgent necessity of extending the ujp age, and thought the Government' wojtw have to extend the age to 16,, If 32 were done the elementary course topp terminate at about 12. Then beg*|« natural period from 12 to 16, ft Mo 4 up to the present overlooked fn iffr Zealand. The State must eee to it wg science was applied to its mdaslaoy and it might be well to establish**., search scholarships, one for each ceunll He suggested the establishment mil State laboratory for scientific reHftJdbl