THE SCHOOLBOY OF TO-DAY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 974, 18 February 1910, Page 4

THE SCHOOLBOY OF TO-DAY.

There ara complaints in England, as well as in New Zealand, tbat the school education to to-day is not turning out as good a type of boy as formerly. Ask anyone, says a London journal, who has long experience of boys what he thinks of them as they now leave school. He will teh you they are less stolid than they were wont to be, and probably more intelligent, but they are infinitely less reliable. Their ability to read and write and spell is undoubtedly less than it used to be, they have a superficial knowledge of many subjects which i9of no practical use to them in the sphere wherein they are destined to move, and if they have gained somewhat in alertness—by no means always the case—they have suffered in solidity of character so far as it can be developed in a boy of 14. Many of them chafe at discipline; the views they gather in school are frequently unsuitable, having regard to their home surroundings; they have been made to understand little of the calls to be made on them on leaving school, and the result, from the employers' point of view, is unsatisfactory in the extreme.