TREND OF EDUCATION.
For the benefit of Mr H. C. Robinson and those who are urging the provision of a High School in Masterton, wo publish the following extract from the report of the Education Commission, wliich recently took evidence in all parts of the Dominion:—"One-of the main, if not the chief, defects of the present scheme of education, iy its tendency to make the public examinations the objective, the result beirijj, that the ranks of clerks (in the cas.? of men) and of typistos (in the case ..f young women) are unduly extender!. The growth of the cities at the expense of the rural and country districts, as disclosed by the last census, is disquieting. If the suggested modifications of the syllabus result in a bias being given to the primal industries of the Dominion—agriculture, dairying and other important industries —and to the increased productiveness of the- soil, the Commission is convinced that the mate-rial prosperity of the peoplo of the Dominion will be greatly enhanced."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10702, 24 August 1912, Page 4
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167TREND OF EDUCATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10702, 24 August 1912, Page 4
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