TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 January 1920, Page 11

TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

p' 3XKXIGEE PERIOD SEEDED. XBy Telegraph.—Press Association.) TVCTJVTSiGTOy, Wednesday. The opinion prevails in educational circles in ike Otago district that all entrants to She teaching profession should ibe Teqmned to matriculate, and that they aboßid eerre first of all two years sn the training college, and then a simi2ar period as junior teachers. A remit to this effect was forwarded to the annual conference of tho Xew Kealand Educational Institute. A lengthy disonssion arose when tie proposal came np for consideration. The majority of the epeaiere favoured tie ihisrher qualification, and the longer period of training suggested. The necessity for a longer course of study in the profeskm waa regarded as just as essential as in the practices of la.w- and medicine. One speaker stated that young teachers were being introduced too freely into a» earij: ages sometimes of eixteen and seventeen years. They dhonH -be very much older* and ibe required to serve a longer period at a -training college. A large number of delegates expressed their' views on the eubject, and the remit, together with others on the order-paper bearing upon it, was ultimately referred to a "special evrb-committee to give it careful consideration, and report to the next annual meeting of the institution. ,