THE NEW EDUCATIONAL SYLLABUS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14921, 20 March 1914, Page 2

THE NEW EDUCATIONAL SYLLABUS.

DIRECTOR'S REPORT

(SrECIAL TO "THE TRESS.") "SVAXGAXUI. March 19. Mr G. D. Braik. Director of Education, in reporting to the Board of Education last night, dealt with primary schools in the following manner: •Tho teachers are getting into grips with the new syllabus, finding apparently that ;the primary education not is not less widely spread than it was by the past syllabus. Some of the new starting points appear to puzzle some of the teachers. Dr. Johnson was asked on one occasion what he considered the right .starting-point in education, and he replied in ins downright English style, that it didn't mat- ; tcr much, not more than it mattered i which leg of his trousers a man put •on first. So far as education is concerned the doctor lived in uncritical times, in the tiino.s when the evolutionist, the psychologist, the biologist and perhaps the faddist, had not beguii to discover, the relation of the child to ins environment." Ih rouorting on continuation classes tho Director suggested that tho Department bo a.-ked to modify the continuation courses of etudv with a view to making them more interesting attractive and useful. The pupils. ] le said, should certainly be required to put torth effort. d«o there would be no education. lint the men who were actually engagod in the work were convinced that the doctrinaire syllahus of the Department did not meet the cir-