STOCKTAKING URGED
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
TEACHERS' INSTITUTE MEETS. (By Telegraph—Press .\nocuuona \VELLINGTON. Honda}: The annual meeting 01' the New Zea—land Educational Institute opened today. in his opening address the president, Mr G. i". Grimths, sultl it was time for a national stocktaking in education. All those educational processes that led to progress must be developed and the factors that hindered must be ellmlnated. The child was the most. valuable asset the country possessed and it was anticipated that there would be a new deal in education. .\loney considerations or interests must not be permitted to Checkmate the forward policy and a revival of sane public opinion regarding’ the claims of edu—cation might well reassure the Government that a progressive policy entailing increasing expenditure would receive general support. . He recommended a determined effort to raise the status ut‘ primary schools no that. they would be second to none in the educational system. Element—ary education was a universal loaven. He also urged the raising of the status of primary school teachers and also Government recognition of the in.tltute.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 9
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175STOCKTAKING URGED Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 9
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