YOUR CHILD AT SCHOOL
Sir~-I have been interested in this correspondence, but it took J. C. Martyn to get my back up. No one expects any teacher to completely develop the whole child. But is there any reason why he should impede the process of growth and development? All educators try to do is to apply sensible psychological principles which were only vaguely recognised under the old system. The process of education has been going on in a normal fashion for five years when the child enters the school. His natural learning methods have taught him how to walk, speak and perform other useful functions, Why should the teacher discard the methods which have proved satisfactory up to this stage? Because a child must enter an adult world which by and large is based on false values does not mean teachers must make him a more efficient carnivore in this jungle. Let society learn from the new generation of children. Finally this thought: J. C. Martyn, among others, learned to walk under the new educational system. I'll bet he’s better at this than at Latin.
R. J.
MAGUINESS
(Tututawa).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 5
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189YOUR CHILD AT SCHOOL New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 874, 4 May 1956, Page 5
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