MODERN EDUCATION.
Tile Mlfli'ster of Education has return.'eft to New Zealand satisfied. that> if we are to maintain our position in the race for knowledge, which Weans power, we must engage in ft>V!ir© up-to-date methods tihan ai'e M'present employed in reasonable to fefoect Wat the Hon'."". "Jame* Allen can. jnjMf bring about those changes iMk> o.re necessary for the ■ must 'be left lib hig responsible of- : ificersv _. ©oifte thousands of pounds J were expended upon a Royal Coihmis-. 'fci'dn, ; k<ye&r or two hack, and we. make jbdlli '#> say that, if half thi s amount 'ifea been spent in sending two or siree of our educational experts, the result® would have been much more satisfactory. Even now, it i« not too late to do something in this direction. It iB understood that the present Secretary for Education will shortly be retiring. Why should not the Minister appoint his successor at once, and send him, with one or two of our leading educationalists, oh a two-years' trip through Europe and other parts of the worl3 ? The money I spent in th% direction would, we are impressed, produce a hundredfold re- ! turn.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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189MODERN EDUCATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 June 1913, Page 4
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