CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3628, 2 October 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To tjje Editor,) Sf'R —Reading over your report on Mr Mc<3ai'(llo's [tddres3 to tljo electors Of Masterton, j was indeed struck by his views on education. Ho proposes that teachers shall givo all the instruction Ihey can to pupils during tie day, (this is precisely what they are paid for), and in the evening hold classes for the instruction.of "larrikins." . Poor teacher I His daily work is insufficiont—the syllatus is liqt leugtljy epough, and just to keep 'li(m ''fully jpfij}j}p|p.d, hp' shall, forsooth, ,ta|e' under his 'si)el|e'r}ni wing our larrikins. It is certainly candid of Mr McCardle to admit that his own phildren have been termed larrikins—hut whose fault is that? Why aro these young people on the streets ? 1 jfs iig't home their place.? But because tlieii.' patefjis say tjipy are unable tp control them, these ungovernable ones are to be 'shunted' ontQ . whose bfl'r% already ig|g'reatpr than hocanbeitf .' Noy,Mr. Editor, ifj reasons ipr troubling yo>} is that 1 r, "vyliQ holds Mr M'Cardle-'s opinion? op t!io goypm- ( raent of %rijiins' ! is purely ijqt an , efficient Msqfl, to o ?® n !l e 'P | making Ijwb fpr the gQVornajahfc (of ■ a country,' In conclusion, I imagine if this gantlopn had one week's experience in some of our schools he would gladly return to Ins bush settlements anil leavo the 'larrikins' , to tlioi? Brop?r guardians—wlio , certainly are not I, am ' DOSJIW, i