SINGLE DESKS IN SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12903, 7 September 1907, Page 10

SINGLE DESKS IN SCHOOLS.

ADDEESS BY MR F. PUttS

Mr F. Pirani, chairmen of tlitj ganui Education Board, lut bilm an address to the School CoaM Association on the subjecrt <rf ■# of einglo desks in 6chook, an<i'i«| opportunity of dealing alsowitpli uiattere of interests to . eduoatMJ Thoro was a faiily targe atUwh over which Mr F Cole pmi<Uq|j Mr Pi rani's remarks, were follow* close attention. .4*ll Mr Pirani dealt at some l«ua| his introductory remarks, velopment of educational. ;l«jp csi>ocial]y emphasiEina the nwderit towards developing the tacultioatH children and .teaching them boiffi quiro. knowledge and to the easiest manner. In the. Vfrafi district, he pointed out, present being done by pupils in Nature etudy, uy giriijl instruction in dairying and'-jbj keeping, and by the lutrodfaottil breathing exercises. Hie ''Uw •iierod in paying oapecial attiefi the infant classes, and their «Sfl wae. whererer possible, to fi|lw paid lady aesistant to t«k»MJ|S| the infanta. He bellered thafSi cess of a child depended on wlh dealt with, during the .first wlra it attended School. VAPpIMIH ferring to the subject Of ■itfilf|K Mr Pirani eaid that nndottbta ■ greatest improvement effsctJlai Wanganui dietriot was the inbiMi of that olase of dwks, whwhlpK due to the obeorratioju '$$m America by Mr Gray, who rjujtig the Board , * chief inspeotor. lß| adventnges of the eing]»4ltlkfl were that it mad« tU m«!at«S discipline easier, •nee, and prevented tb*4jj|ltifl| ren copying from the venbod orercrowding. opinions of eeveral teacbMV'frW emgle desk* .in , their mfootMM were all highly favourable. OmU stated that th* chiHrwi ar» *m 5 fortable, tihat there is' leat'tMHi to talk, sjid that tb* likely to interfere with oil*", lii work. . Referring to the.«xpen«ej| etituting ainefie desk* for tWi.il ones, he trnid thai' the'iyitema| was to ask the inapet«oM ti« on the oondition of the deikia to the number thgy ooMUktfil§| be thrown out. Tdom'throwKil replaced;'by. single de*ke.si*j| oost, he -etated that the SMBM cost lie 9d eabh. at tb» j fMNfl 1& 3d -at the t*Hw*j eUtk*m Sinui; the dual desks: t there ar. XIOO eiM in use in''tib<e''dktirM; H :'a||i9H ■being made to' supply prwe*||i . At tb* eoßclu*io« ilr Pfraiijii cd' tereral' question*, * aod 'waifMlj a hearty Wteof tkaiika : for'itii'ii ing aod instruetiT* addtee.j-4^