FREE PLACE SCHOOLS.
The Committee of the Mount Cook School Committee has drawn attention to the injustice suffered by the primary schools owing to the difficulty attendant upon the winners oL scholarships and free places obtaining.admission to the schools. The fact of the matter is that the Wellington College is over-crowded with the children of tiie wealthy, and there is no room for free place pupils. The same" thing is happening, and will continue to happen, in other parts of the Dominion. So long as we make precision chiefly 'for the professions, so long a.s our educational policy is directed in class channels, there will be no improvement. Some day there will be a system of classification of pupils according to thtir natural bent, and their environment. eWhen this period arrives, children will be afforded opportunity for pursuing their studies in the direction designed for them by nature, and the Dominion will be the better off.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 April 1913, Page 4
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156FREE PLACE SCHOOLS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 April 1913, Page 4
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