NO ONE WANTS IT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 20

NO ONE WANTS IT.

MATRICULATION EXAM. MINISTER'S STATEMENT. HOPES FOR ABOLITION. (By TelPsrraoh. —Press Association.) WKLLI\'<i'TO-V. Friday. A ho|K' that th<* matriculation examination would not last much longer a- no one wanted it. was expressed by the -Minit-ter of Kdncat.ion. the Hon. I*. Kramer. sjieakin;r at lite breaking-tip ceremony of the Wellington Training' Collejro at Kelburn to-day. It was only to Ik- e.\[K'cted that present day students should be more capable than those who hail before, since they were >rettinjr better opportunities educationally than their predecessors. said Mr. Kraser. Nothing wamore important for the country'-, future and democracy' than that they should all learn to think out things for themselves

and not accept ready-made opinions blindly. He believed that principle traj followed in the ■ -h-j-■ I.— Xew Zen !a nd. JJcvea.pnieiii- r.nd inipr-.vcnvn-* ma d« in regard in tra:n:ii;r v. ,-r e rft _ ferred to by .Mr. Krar-er. v. in. >aid ;h at a ma tier <>i importance <•> future -tudeiit-i wa- the abolition .if -ho training college entrance on a m in. i r !..n. which wa< regarded a- uimov.—ar\ when r-tndeii t - had tin* ma;: examination, fie Sloped that ' lie latter examination \v<ui'd not la-t n.u'-j longer eillier (applause l , and that nu-niivrs of tin- I'ni \ er>i; y r-enaie prc-cn; would convey )iiearned w i-ii to that. bodv that eon-idera t ion of the a hoim ~f t jj' e e.N.i mina! ion would 1k? tacked at the | next meeting. Me, one wan*.. .1 the I e.xainiiiation.