ACCREDITING OPPOSED
REMARKS OF MR. H. B. LUSK
His belief in examinations was stressed by ]\lr. H. B. Lusk, headmaster of King's College, at the annual prize-giving ceremony on Saturday evening. Examinations were the only way to find out what a boy really knew, he said. It might be that s few \\ ould fciil to do their best but they would have to undergo many tests and trials through life and should learn to face the trials when they were young.
Mr. Lusk said he made no secret of the fact that he was not in favour of accrediting. _ Ho was sure that the abolition of the sixth standard proficiency examination was a mistake, and felt equally that accrediting would prove in time to be a failure and that a return would be made to the real tests.
Mr. Lusk said there was more solid value to be gained from an attack on Latin, a modern language and mathematics than was contained in a smattering of economics, social geography or practical arithmetic. The educational system must not neglect the academically better minds, and there was a danger that this might occur in the attempt" to cater for tha average citizen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 295, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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