A SCHEME COMMENDED.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1922, Page 5

A SCHEME COMMENDED.

THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Oct. 16. The Minister of Education is gratified to find that the New Zealand Educational Institute has endorsed his policy of establishing Junior High Schools. The secertary of the institute has forwarded to the Minister the following motion, carried at the last meeting of the excutive: “That the executive Congratulates the Minister on the successful opening of the first intermediate school, under the title of Junior High School, and trusts he will be encouraged to proceed with the extension and improvement of the education system, which this opening foreshad ows. The Minister stated to-day that the opinion of the Teachers’ Institute was valuable because it was the judgment of experienced educationalists. The public, moreover, were gradually reaching the conclusion that there were certain deficiencies in the education system and that remedies must be secured. The reconstruction of the courses of education from six to 15 years of age, which will be effected in the intermediate school system will, he felt confident, prove to be the solution of many existing difficulties. The extension of (he school age to 15 must of course follow as a complement to the new scheme. Education could not be run with water- ; tight compartments as at present. , The new system, said the Minister, will largely break down the barrier separating the primary and secondary teachers, and will tend to unify the profession. The primary teacher will have a new avenue of of promotion opened to him, while the sec ondary teacher of the future will get a useful training in the Junior High Schools and so enter upon the Senior High School work with the training which the young , university graduate, who begins teaching in secondary schools, often lacks.