COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18195, 4 October 1924, Page 10

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

CULTURAL COURSES Fos*| ARTISANS. >j| '•The Minister of Education njj§j to the relationship of secondary technical high schools in his port ■which has just, come to said the chairman of the Technical..^ lege Board of Governors (Mr Opic) at last night's meeting of body. "It is rather remarkable lie should state that, commercial tion should be carried on in Jjjjlj schols, but. not jn technical jtjl schools. From the usual point of,v3 commercial education is to be regartg as technical just as much as i s tiaisfg for carpentry or engineering, ajrij|l| quires technical experts as teachers! just, the same extent. The. fact s|| high schools have broadened <SS courses considerably in the past fiftS years is no argument for the cxclom of commercial education from technil high schools. It is open to quests ■whether any large, proportion of Hj leading secondary schools of Xe.w Z& land arc employing qualified shortiuS typivst.es or bookkeepers as teacheril commercial subjects, or whether th» that provide tuition in commercial wj jeots allow sufficient time each to permit, the pupils to become quail® for suitable positions at tho end of or three years. This attitude of.;:« Minister 'was indicated at. the last tra nical conference, and I cannot % dorse his idea that, commercial ed«| tion is suitablo for high schools only| "It will also bo uufortunato if (jj Minister attempts ™ restrict Jj course of education that is to be g«| to pupils in trade courses in techm| high schools. We do not, wish to.l our intending carpenters, engine*! farmers, and housewives given liberal education than professbn.il ,a« commercial nen and women. professions ."is ■well as for tho highly technical training is requii| and for the development, of goo<L<sj niust that all classes as liberal a cultural education as.jp can give them." , . •'£§ On the motion of Mr tlie foUsi ing resolution was adopted for «sjg warding to tho Minister of I'jilucAtujij "That this Board is emphatically.< tho opinion, that commercial oducatifl can be taught more successfully in td nical high schols than in ordinary tog schools."