Our Largest School
OBODY who has read the interview of a "visiting" teacher in a recent Listener, and heard the broadcast reminiscences of two travelling pedagogues given the same week, can fail to picture some of the difficulties under which backblocks children work. But the product of a city primary school of a generation ago may listen to the Correspondence Schools Sessions with a certain amount of envy. We lived in classes of 80 and 90 where harassed teachers had no time to go beyond the bare elements of formal instruction. "Art" was the faithful reproduction of a teapot, and "music" was mass singing with a tuning fork--same room, same teacher. Admittedly the curriculum has been liberalised, but classrooms are still cruelly overcrowded and_ specialists scarce. The modern Correspondence School pupil may be more of an individual in his teacher’s eyes than the city child can be, and he needs the support because of his isolation. On Tuesday and Friday mornings we hear talks which are evidence that a wide range of interests is fostered, and notices of libraries and clubs that show how much trouble is being taken to make the pupil see himself as an active member of the community. Though nine-tenths of the work of the School is hidden from us in thé post, the broadcast sessions give us a glimpse of the vision and energy with which it functions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 8
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233Our Largest School New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 297, 2 March 1945, Page 8
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