OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 April 1928, Page 8

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

IS CONCENTRATION IKPOSSBI*,

(To the Editor.)

The logic of those who hold that Su. (open-air schools) is made necessarr absence of sun and air" in EnriTL likewise be necessitated by their in New Zealand" is not q d * Be » that of Professor Anderson wh»n v * 8 ** that concentration is best develSJ e n S ~ta £ h ciplme and within four walls that concentration is practically a side the four walls. If this fa J obvious that the incapacity to c^w #< * due to the fact that education on between four walls and that K with at least three of them, theW° ones, would be advantageous* R^rL^ Bde conditions a student, if he of concentration, which he XuM likely to do as a "room" student wed?*!! his power undiminished on goin- jJSM I open spaces of New Zealand to r tn K e - at . sgt is limited to absorption, in, of Pure Reason" Ziin t& i and is a negligible quMtitv iZ. j Mother Nature and faced with Problem'TLl! are quite worthy of serious attention demand it, is a very poor thing. has done most of his thinking ally feels at a loss when hi is do it in the open, but when he * himself to the new conditions he cSS££ as well and as deeply as ever andbS^ cannot have too much fresh air«?Z,TS »»d the better the climate the are open-air schools. I cannot see «£££* materialistic in such an idea ' be due to the f.et that »ort of has been done on the high-roads and bySS of the country, and not in rooms. ™ A- C. HANLQjt.