EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31598, 8 February 1968, Page 7

EDUCATION CONFERENCE

A renewed call for an education development conference has been made by the New Zealand Educational Institute (primary and intermediate teachers) in the February issue of its journal, “National Education.” A leading article says this would allow educationists to seek ways of improving both the quantity and quality of their services within the limits of available resources, to take a positive attitude toward using technology for their own ends, and to secure maximum public support for the contribution to society which teachers alone are trained to make. Sueh a conference could allow friendly but critical confrontation of educationists and the “buyers of the schools’ products.” “Industry and agriculture have benefited from this probing and planning,” says the leading article. “Such an education conference would be quite different from the assessment and guidance of the Currie Commission six years ago. “What is needed now is something more outward looking,” says the article. It says that President Johnson has proposed an International Education Year to “mobilise energies and inspire initiatives” and that this former country school teacher is now chief executive of the world’s most powerful nation.