"MENTAL AGES."
PUPILS STARTING SCHOOL PROPOSAL NOT SUPPORTED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. The suggestion that children should enter school according to their mental development instead of according to ages, was embodied in a remit submitted to the annual meeting of the Women Teachers' Association this morning by Taranaki delegates. _ j After a brief discussion the remit was defeated, Taranaki being unsupported. In proposing the remit, Mrs. Buff said many children of six years of age perhaps varied from 4$ to seven years in mental development. If children all commenced at the same mental age their school life would be happier and the teachers' work easier.
Miss Sutherland (Masterton) asked who was to apply the test. Children would have to be tested according to a Dominion standard, and few infant teachers had sufficient knowledge of psychology to be able to make such examination.
Mrs. Pouhy (Masterton) contended that it was more a matter for internal management and school children should be classified after they had been enrolled.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 112, 15 May 1933, Page 15
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