A LEAKAGE.
Giviung evidence before (the- Education. Commission at Dunedin on Friday, Mr P. iGoyem (ex-Chkf Injector of Schools for the Otago district)., summed up what, in his opinion, is the result of the present system c!f" primary education in New Zealand as follows: "At the most critical period of life, at the time when their education is beginning to operate most efficiently, audi the coWtiinuance of mental, moral, and physical discipline is all-important to it heir future, and to the future efficiency of the nation, tliciusanUs of boys and girls of the towns andi c.ties year by year pas® Ifrom the discipline of the schools to a world where, Avhen. they are .not alb wo'rk, they loaf about, {earning littile that is elevating and much that is degrading to character,. aiid soon forget what Ithey learned at isohool, except writing and mecharf'cal parts of reading and arithmetic."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10663, 19 June 1912, Page 4
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148A LEAKAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10663, 19 June 1912, Page 4
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