INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 245, 16 October 1922, Page 3

INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION.

ENDORSED BY INSTITUTE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Education is gratified; to find that the New Zealand Kduea- i tional Institute has endorsed his policy | of establishing junior high schools. The ; secretary of the institute has forwarded ; the Minister the following motion, car- | riedatthe last meeting of the executive: j "That the executive congratulates the , Minister on the successful opening of , the first intermediate school under the i title of the -Tumor High School, and j trusts he will be encouraged to proceed with an extension of the improvement of the education system which this opening foreshadows ." The Minister stated to-dny that the ! opinion of the Teachers' Institute was • valuable, because it was the judgment of experienced educationists. The public, however, was gradually reach-! ing the conclusion that there were cer- ! tain deficiencies in the education sys- j tern, and that remedies must be secured. _ The reconstruction of the courses of j education of children from six to fifteen j years of age which will be effected in the intermediate school system will, be I felt confident, prove to bo the solution I of many existing difficulties. Extension of the school age to fifteen must of course follow as a complement to the ' new scheme, which could not bo run I with water-tight compartments, as at ; , present, and the big gap. The new j system, said the Minister, will largely! break down the harrier separating primary and secondary teachers, and will tend to unify the profession. The ; primary teacher will have a new . avenue of promotion opened to him, , while the secondary teacher of the] future will get useful training in the : junior high schools, and so enter upon senior high school work with a training which a young university graduate who begins teaching in a secondary school often lacks.