Maori Differences
Sir, —Had your contributor, Mr C. T. Reid, read earlier articles of mine and had the education editor not found it necessary to excise some descriptive phrases from the last one, it would have beer clear that the village I visited was in the Western Pacific, not in New Zealand, and much of Mr Reid's indignation would have lacked cause. But 1 still believe that most pupils who fall behind in the classroom race do so because they lack either the wit or, more often, the will to handle the subject-matter. The presence of any inborn or sociological differences that may tend to cause or accentuate these deficiencies cannot well be the fault of either teachers or schools. No pupil of any race will pass an examination in any subject unless he or she desires to do so.—Yours, etc., J. F. WILLIAMS. May 2, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31669, 3 May 1968, Page 10
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147Maori Differences Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31669, 3 May 1968, Page 10
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