THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17634, 11 December 1922, Page 4

THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

METHODS AND TEACHERS. From, the Government Education Gazette the following extracts are taken. — Educational authorities employing pupil-teachers and probationers have remarked on the deficiencies of many matriculated candidates in respect to their knowledge of geography and history. It is suggested to principals of secondary schools and district high schools that pupils who are likely to enter the teaching profession should always include these two subjects in their matriculation course. The attention of the Minister of Education has been drawn to the practice of inflicting corporal punishment on children for trifling offences, and for falling short in school lessons. It can scarcely be believed that there are 6tiH teacher 3 so utterly out of date, not to say lacking in the most elementary principles of justice, as still to resort to the barbarous method of attempting to make a child learn his lessons by inflicting physical pain on him. The principal schools in Western Samoa and llaxotonga are in charge of New Zealand teachers. Mr E. W. Beaglehole, formerly in the service of the Wellington Education Board, is in charge at Samoa, and Mr J. C. Evison, formerly in Taranaki, is in charge at Rarotonga. Mr A. F. Larcombe, formerly headteacher at Auroa, Taranaki, is headmaster at the new provincial school, Eastern Fiji.