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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 10

The school-teacher of the Northern Territory has been faced till late with the problem l of adapting his methods of instruction to mixed classes of white children and Asiatics. In a report from Mr V. L. Lampe, the head teacher at the Ihinvin school, it is observed that a drawback to the progress of the scholars in the past has been the inclusion among Europeans of non-English speaking children, principally Asiatics. The latter, though, very good in their mechanical work and in arithmetic, were quite willing in oral lessons to sit back and let their white companions do all the work of answering. This led to a deplorable weakness in subjects requiring ability in soeaking or writing English. The Asiatics have, accordingly, been placed apart from the European children, under a separate' teacher. As a result, the Asiatics, being required to think and talk for themselves in English, have taken more interest in their or?! work, and I a corresponding increase in proficiency I has naturally followed.