EDUCATION POLICY OF GOVERNMENT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 6

EDUCATION POLICY OF GOVERNMENT

Many Reforms Inevitable

MESSAGE FROM MINISTER FOR EDUCATION

The Minister for Education (the lion. P. Eraser) has sent the following special message to "The Press":— "The education policy of the Government is to place within the reach of every child in New Zealand the fullest opportunity of the best education. This involves provision of the most modern kind of schools—kindergarten, primary, and postprimary—and university as speedily as the financial resources of the country permit. It means the efficient training of our teachers in enlightened educational theory and practice as well as in child psychology. The teacher should also be equipped with a working knowledge of economics, sociology, and the principles of democratic citizenship. "Education should aim at helping children to grow into men and women fully developed culturally as well as technically,

able to live a full life as well as a useful one, able tq enjoy the social heritage of technical achievement, of science, art, and literature, able to participate in the enjoyment of healthy sport and physical culture, and, thus equipped, to give of their best in a life of service and usefulness to the community. To achieve this a recognition of education as a unified process, including adult education, is essential. “Many reforms are desirable, and, indeed, are inevitable. The help of all earnestly interested in securing the best education for our children and young people is requested and confidently anticipated in furthering such scholastic and administrative reforms.”