EDUCATION QUESTIONS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13103, 30 April 1908, Page 8

EDUCATION QUESTIONS.

INTERVIEW. WITH MR G, : Z?§jo% HOGBEN. ■■■ :^"V^f||| -. (F&UB AUOCIATIOS TKLMRIM.V'■"-{^ll .- { . ■ - AUCKLAND,- Aprii;2p||| Interviewed this afternoon, ;Mr £G|||| Etogben, Inspector-General of Scli6oti|||l ■who is at present m Auckland/; asked to give aU opinion •Oβ;'t»V:ti»j||| statements recently made by .the 'C3iaup||| man of the City Schools' Committee garding the paucity of mala, .teache*s|||| entering the. profession. In reply,:, fiefs stated fchat.thia;ejtaitie/bf affairs peculiar : 'ftto'>N4w;' v "'3 Zealand.. ■York/rfor^-iMtaawD,"/ ho- said, \\*?tbws| 1 to male teachers, and in England the. wt)|ggSJs portion of f eniale teachers (is than ijn New- Zealand. I ddl not t£m«f||| that there' J3 danger 'toibe.' foarede from ■ tho preponderance 06; females.y.\t,iH must bo remembered .tfiiai' ■ .womeii ■;■&s!& teaohem go into the profeesdoa in at'Jeest ';W two cases out of three "only for a, com-! .'m parative ■ short term of years, whereaa 'M men with:few exceptions enter it a6*-oy|| life profession, so that unless the * U ply of women were nearly three UmeeK as great at the beginning, tiiero wouldM not even, be equality of numbered , ;"li|M no other .country that I hay© -vißitOTjgS or am acquainted , .with.", ho Hdd students get treated so well ':3gmk their, training as ;regards; money mente, etc., as they do jii. New-> land.*-'I do not think that th« effeo||i§i of; having ■ womten' . mr Zealand are co serious as some peopwsS ima.?in«. - They talk of in the boys, and say that thoy areljwOT so virile. X think I should.- : see tj» elder boys taughCJ>y •on the other hand;l; should elder girls to be taught ,hy ; However,' you cannot always ■ ''aeiwftiffl that that shall be the case. . : :-''Wt»Bl|| that principle is not carried. out, ebines- neoeeeary to trust to 1 fiuences, ench as 'home and the CHTgoip | stances of. life to keep u,p true. or. femininity, as the. case anay | .Mr Hogben admitted that it was eraHyarecoOTiJftod that the schools mgrtj I b9sfaffedi(6?tt€T! but bett<sr staffs of teaohers | ~nJOiles-ii^|i- ! 'Jv-.'. ; . .'- ■ ~. - - ! '~. '»-'"'?.tv)it|p new •centlylijaietted: iJie expreeeed the opinion' that th? one, | viding for tlie . fixt^ire ; of; &c year.term in Deoomber ought transition from the ■ primary-: eeoomJary schools and the technio|iy sohoole. very easy. Again, the tione for junior and senior free it was.lmped, .would give in. working, and make it possibleVfsi|ffi a' child holding afree iplaoo preparation for any, path in life,.■;«*:§ considera>ble of eubjec;te wifS given j so long"as the course taken, wiips really' a secondary or higher eo»-",*!fSfl As a result of Mr Hogben'e Tisitlfels Auckland, a Research Scholarship 'willill be offered at once. Anyone qualified inti|| jbhe Auckland University District•roaj^.® enter'for it. .' . ".■ Y : tsM