An Opportunity Missed
: It would be interesting to know just i why the Education Department lias | refused Mr D. M. Rac the leave ol absence necessary to enable him to accept t lie Carnegie Corporation's oiler of a travelling scholarship. The Auckland Teachers' Training College. ol which Mr Rac is principal, has beer, closed temporarily to en- • able the present surplus of teachers i to be absorbed, and it is natural to I expect that the Education Departj ment would find no difliculty in re- , leasing him. In any case, the departI ment should be prepared to endure | considerable inconvenience rather ! than compel one of its teachers to j neglect an opportunity to study edu- ■ catiunal methods in the United , States and Great Britain. The New ■ Zealand education system is desperately in need of fresh knowledge and fresh ideas: and it is dillicult to be- , lieve that anything Mr Rae can do by remaining in New Zealand will 'be one tenth as valuable to the community as the experience he would gain by accepting the Carnegie Corporation's offer.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 8
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178An Opportunity Missed Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21118, 20 March 1934, Page 8
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