AN ENTHUSIASTIC PRECEPTOR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3002, 26 September 1908, Page 4

AN ENTHUSIASTIC PRECEPTOR.

The Headmaster of the Masterton District High School (Mr W. H. Jackson) is now busy again with his elder scholars in the preparation of the school gardens for the spring planting. The amount of valuable knowledge of a most practical char-

acter imparted by the Headmaster in connection with this important branch* of the modern school curriculum is very considerable indeed, Mr Jackson beng a skilled horticulturist. But his enthusiasm is well-known, and only recently the following high compliment was paid to him by Mr J. T. M. Hornsby, in speaking in the House on the Education Bill: —"I know a teacher in this country, and he is not a thousand miles from Wellington, who thinks as I do, and who holds himself, as it were, responsible for the personal habits of the children in his school. That teacher puts his impress upon every child in that school. He attends to them as a father would to his own children, with a knowledge of what he ought to do for the children, and I say it would be a vastly batter thing if we could get all our teachers in all the State schools of this country to take that personal interest in the children which that gentleman has time to do. I think I ought to do him the justice to state his name—Mr W. H. Jackson, headmaster of the Masterton District High School. If we had more teachers of his calibre in this Dominion, it would be a much better thing for the children, and, of course, for the State." : ,