"BLIND WASTEFULNESS."
| ZOOTOMY IH EDUCATION. S TEACHER'S CONPEMNATION. <V|; (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) « . ' WELLINGTON, Tuesday. • j A strong protest against a policy of ieonomy in education was ottered by Jtr. B. N. T. Blake, in his presidential address to the New Zealand Educational fstitute. "Were I Minister of Education tolay," said Mr. Blake, "I would stand obstinately against the kind of economy which allows large classes to exist because of want of room, or of staff; which attempts to deprive the children of the best and the soundest; which conceives education in terms of instruction alone; which saves a little to-day but loses much; and which, finally, is not economy at all but a blind kind of wastefulness. Nor would I standalone/ The country is wealthy and its credit is sound. We h»ve just added another £6,000,000 to our national indebtedness. No parent, I {Lin sure, would raise a murmur against a further expenditure if assured by, the {Government that the money was • -.. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 109, 11 May 1927, Page 19
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