The view that, in its present form, the matriculation (university entrance) examination had a doubtful prognostic value, that it was too rigid in its requirements,, and that most secondary schools were conscious of the futility of much of their academic labours, was advanced by Mr N. Matheson yesterday in his presidential address to the annual meeting of the Otago Educational Institute. He said that the compulsory learning of a foreign language caused more misery and drudgery than everything else, except compulsory mathematics.— Press Association. ■
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 14
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