THE EDUCATIVE PROCESS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 10

THE EDUCATIVE PROCESS

INSTRUCTION SYSTEM FUTILE EMPHASIS ON THE CHILD (Special to Times.) NAPIER, Monday. " In all matters pertaining to "the cSlanging world the child must be taught to think for himself.” said Mr R. MeGlashen, in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute at Napier to-day. “ The necessity for the child to think out positions for himself must be more obvious than ever before. Surely in this one sees the utter futility of an instruction system as compared with the educative process. " We have realised more and more the need for broadening the aims of education so as to givfe far greater emphasis than previously on the social development of children," he added. “ Thus will (he subject mailer of the classroom be brought more eloselv in lo contact with an environment beyond the schools. Perhaps this will also lead to the solvins of one of Ihe greatest problems in education to-dav sure that the qualities of mind and character that are made to blossom freely enough under the protective care of the school will continue to flourish under the less sheltered conditions which the children will experience in later life. “ We have thus come to a realisation that the shift ot' emphasis has been and must be from the subject to Hie child, so that every serviceable talent of the child will be brought to fruition.”