ABOLISH LATIN AND GREEK.
Dr. A. K. Newman (Mayor of Wellington), speaking at the Educati_nal Institute Conference at "Welli-gfco-yesterday (telegraphs our correspondent) advocated a more practical syatem of education than our present sntern. "We all •want?' he said, "to abolish such nonsense as Latin Mid * Greek. There is no necessity for tiie-), and I am sorry to think that my son has wasted so much time in lwnun* Latin when he miqj-t have occupied b_ days in studying something nraoh mona useful. We are a people who are going to have the cobwebs swept aw»3_- . Try to flive the children th© tandi of knowledge that will, fitthem for the battle ii after life. What ia wanted is to train our people for modem •wants."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13622, 5 January 1910, Page 6
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