University Entrance
Sir, —Dr. Jobberns’s views on university entrance should be supported. Slavery to exams has always been the worst enemy of real education. Learning facts from text-books becomes “education” and leaves no time to read great books, to think, to discuss, or to develop. Often present university entrance dr scholarship work is but a pointless repetition of first year university work. It makes the latter not easier, but only more boring by destroying its freshness. The sixth form, 1 feel, should be a time not for swotting for university entrance or scholarships but for reading really worthwhile non-textbooks and for discussing and thinking about the problems and future of New Zealand and the world. The sixth form should give pupils strong motivation and a sense of direction. Then they would come to university as real students and not as crammers with dead minds. —Yours, etc., M. D. SADLER. August 29, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 3
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