HEADMISTRESS’S VIEWS
“Position Not As Bad As Painted”
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. March 26.
Miss M. J. Clark, retiring headmistress of the Wellington Girls' College, is a woman with strong opinions about modern education and the juvenile delinquency question. "It's quite ridiculous,” she said today, “to say the modern methods of teaching are not as good as the old ones. I always think people are crazy when they suggest this. “There’s been a tremendous change in education during the last 10 years. The whole curriculum has been widened and improved. Far greater demands are made on a child now than ever before.”
On the delinquency question, Miss Clark said, “I think the picture is painted far worse than it really is. I have great faith in the youth of New Zealand. In my seven years as headmistress here, I’ve known only five or six ’unsatisfactory’ pupils out of 2000 odd.”
Miss Clark is, in her own words, "a firm believer in old-fashioned discipline.” “I really think the children appreciate discipline, but discipline must be consistent—by that, I mean fairly applied.”
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28546, 27 March 1958, Page 14
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