OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS.

Wairarapa Age, 30 March 1920, Page 4

OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS.

Thp new Minister of Education haf done well to announce that his first j task will be to deal with the over : crowding evil. It ought to be obviout | to.everybody connected with education that the, first thing to do is to bbußC children in healthy conditions. The best teaching in the world will fail to secure adequate results if the children have not got Sufficient roon. to work in, or sufficient pure air t( breathe. Yet, in scores of schools in jNew Zealand, such conditions havt long .existed. While the State quite' rightly givfes children physical train ing, and pays doctors to examine thenx it also insists on them /getting theii i. education under conditions easilj remediable, that endanger their health An immediate end should (in the opinion of the Auckland Star) be put jto eucfy an inconsistency. Mr. Pan, •comes from a district that suffers more from this evil than any other part oi •the Dominion, and he is, well acquainted with the facts, of 1 the problem, so. he may be depended upon to press the necessity for immediate, reform on his departmental officers and on dabinet'.