JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.
THE FIRST ONE OPENED. ADVANTAGES OF THE SYSTEM By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Kowhai Junior High School was opened by the Hon. C. J. Parr to-day. The Minister characterised the occasion as a red letter day in the history of education in New Zealand. There had been talk of the new system injuring primary and secondary education, but such criticism was offered only by the ill informed. A large percentage of children were at present going through courses quite unsuited to their special needs, whereas in the junior high schools they would be tired out by different courses and given a course of instruction to which they were best adapted. Bright children would not be forced to go slow to keep pace with dull one, and the latter would not be left behind as at present, for it would be demonstrated they were not dull at all, only different. “Let us try out the new idea and experiment, not slavishly copying other countries, by evolving a system of education that will peculiarly be adapted to the needs of the children of our own country,” added the Minister.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1922, Page 4
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192JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1922, Page 4
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