OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 6

OPEN-AIR SCHOOLS.

A DOCTOR IH SUPPOSE.

(To the Editor.)

The letter from Professor W A this subject in your Thursdays" a pathetic ignorance of educati® in i £ sense of the word. It is^® ming of facts into the mind of » SlT*" training him to concentrate on ret.% that is truly a "materalistW> rm . nature of education. Rather eH out of his every faculty through ol reasoning, experiencing, leading monious development of his whole p, JSJE: phystcal, mental and spiritual. TV o whether this can best be carried out ? crowded ugly room or when in dose tMI ,' natural beauty and the fresh winds The universal testimony of parents and inspectors here and everrrtwr L *?"<»»» children not only greatly improve in and resistance to disease in these that the mental results are some Fiw! cent better than those obtained cooped up within four walls in the Recent articles in the "Times" and ton in the "Spectator" of open-air frequented London parks specially th »* undisturbed by onlookers; it is quiettJ^LS i y , routine otfc «- these schools also emerge. There is It o [J?aehen and children from flint* children so trained find stnffr hojJ^L? durable, so insist upon open windows Last of aH, there is the great savin-r of money now squandered upon oelate^S buddings which cost four times at the same number of pupils. New 3«1«S W no use for the stuffy prejudices .tffcLS minis who can hinder this forward mov^? which is in line with rnedern ideiWuri^ scientific hygiene of education. M E. STAIJ EY \LD