STUDY IN SCHOOLS
Four-day Week Suggested (NZ. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Dec. IL An Australian headmaster, Mr L T. Maddem, of the Morwell High School in Victoria, last night advocated a fourday school week and an end to cramming for examinations. Mr Maddern said the teacher shortage In Victoria would be worsened next year when the school leaving age of 15 was introduced. “What is the sense of bringing more pupils into the schools when we have not enough teachers to teech the existing numbers’” he asked. On a four-day week and an end to cramming, Mr Maddem said: “Some of the matriculants at my school have been working 70 hours a week for the last three months—absolute slavery.
"It we cut out examinations and stopped cramming the children with useless information, we could easily teach what is necessary in a four-day week, and so effectively increase the number of teachers and the classroom by a fifth. "There is a need to educate people instead of cramming them with information.
“There is a lot of difference between education and just cramming knowledge." he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 21
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