EDUCATION AND ECONOMY.
THE MINISTER’S VIEW. DUTY TO THE CHILDREN. The policy of the Education Department in what were described as the essentials of education was briefly referred to by the Hod. C. J. Parr in the course of hia speech at the official opening of the new Technical High School at Stratford yesterday. This topic was mentioned by one of the earlier speakers, Mr. R. Masters, M.P., who spoke of "the cry for economy in the country.” “I shall oppose any movement in this direction at the expense of education,” said Mr. Masters. “Economy, well may it come, but so far as I am concerned, it shall not come at the expense of the boys and girls.” The subject was also referred to by the Minister when he addressed the gathering. “I am glad,” he said, /‘to have in Mr. Masters a strong supporter of my own views in regard to economy in education. Of course in a department with an expenditure running into three and a half million a year it will be my duty to see that it is well spent. If we are spending money and not getting the results we ought to in certain directions I shall have to cut things down, but 1 want you to understand that so far as the essentials of. education are concerned they must be preserved. They must not be interfered with even in hard times. My duty to these children is to see that they shall have the opportunity as if the times were normal. Take away from a child the benefits of two or three years of an up-to-date course of instruction and nothing can repay that child. It would be foolish economy; it would be madness, even in times of financial stress, to take away from the children education to fit them for good citizenship. One of the main objects of education, and particularly tho post-primary course, is to teach our children to have minds of their own, and to think clearly and to study out the serious problems, which face our Empire, and which can only be solved by the pluck and resource and the trained intelligence of our people of the future M
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1922, Page 4
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369EDUCATION AND ECONOMY. Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1922, Page 4
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