EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 9 June 1926, Page 9

EDUCATION AND ECONOMICS.

THEIR RELATIONSHIP.

TIIE PROBLEM OF LIVING,

iDy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.

The Council of Education met to-day,! when the Hon. It. A. Wright, Minister of ( Education, sar.i Oiat, in spite of opinions i recently expressed, it was impossible to divorce" education from economics. The cost of education had risen from 12/ per head in the 'eighties to £."i per head now. It was no use complaining, but people were beginning to ask. whether the j system would "stand the strain of the j growing demands upon it. \ Mr. Wright pointed out that while, tiie average skilled or unskilled work-! man had little left after paying for i rent and bare necessities, the question of earning a living pressed upon children as soon as thov reached the Sixth Stand-, ard. This was another indication of the: close relation of economic with education. Mr. Ciiu-'il.'.r. Director of Education, said that ioiMin:cal e.ln.-ution had r.o: yet found its true objective ■ The time ha«l come tv take stoc-k ot the position. Hitherto, each director! had been allowed to work out a polity of his own. but wiiat was wanted now were Technical High School Boards and a settled policy. No longer must pupils be made to work to the equipment pro- \ vidod. "l"iie liaio had couie to arrange. I fur \hc vovk most suitable to each: |M!iii!. ! . ' "il:e fx-iii!.;! resolved to ask the DfPurtmoin to revise the conditions: i miller which boarding allowances are i granted to scholarship holders. I A motion "That the Minister be adI visod to establish in centres of over i 1:2,000 people at least one primary school j to:- a'.ns in Standards i. to VI., and stalled entirely by women," wa=. moved by -Mr. J. R. Kirk, tlUcuaslon on which is now proceeding. ■■ . i