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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27564, 22 January 1955, Page 3

ing The n New Zt. s. could lait,said. The sa primary teachers when compared wiffA. industry, research orga other occupations. There form salary scale for men au teachers and as a result the mi... of teachers were women, even at higi schools. This had presented a difficult situation because all schools in the United States, except private ones, are co-educational. Male Teachers Wanted “A larger proportion of men teachers is really needed for the direction of the boys, some of whom stay at school till they are 18 or 19 years of age,” he said. Mr Hunter found that the co-educa-tional school is fully accepted in the United States as being a perfectly natural institution. This was, in fact, the position in all the countries he visited, though in England particularly there is still strong opinion, in favour of the separate boys’ and girls’ schools, which are almost entirely of the public school or grammar school type. To see the work being done in mathematics and science at American high schools was Mr Hunter’s main

to Seco.. structib similar Great im £ adult jeducath and Denmark, u women attended tht during the winter me age public mind appt things much above the of Britain or the T.A.B. ’ land,” he said. v . “Living is hard in these cot . . they are small and. except Übr Sweden, I relatively poor. But agaiitet all this is a background of a very o|d culture,” Mr Hunter said. Mr Hunter will leave for- Auckland early next week to take up the position of senior inspector of postprimary schools. j t