INSTRUCTION OF PUPIL TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1888, Page 2

INSTRUCTION OF PUPIL TEACHERS.

(To the Editor.) Ser,— We were very pleased to see from your columns that the Education Board had recently taken a step in the right direction in requiring headmasters of public schools to devote an hour daily to the instruction of tjaieir pupil teachers. To the vast majority of head teachers, such instructions, I should opine, were unnecessary ; but it is lamentable to thin Ie that teachers could be instanced in the provincial district of Auckland who never imparted viva voce instruction to their pupil teachers, and that in remote districts where these pupil teachers were beyond the reach of other means of instruction, they were expected to pass their annual exams, as well as their more highly-favoured compeers. Let the Education Board see to it now that their head teachers are capable of imparting the necessary instruction to the pupil teachers (which at present is more than doubtful in the case of some of them), and let them see to it that the hour is faithfully devoted to the work, and there need be no fear of our education in the future. The sweeping away of the Training College ■will not only be no loss, but a positive blessing.—lam, etc., Vebitas.