Education Week
Sir,—The United Nations has set 1970 aside as International Education Year. Parents and teachers might be interested to consider the wording of a section of the United Nations Declaration of ■the Rights of the Child: “The child . . . shall be given opportunities . . . to enable him to develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually and socially in a healthy and nor-
mal manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. In the enactment of laws for this purpose, the best interest of the child shall be the paramount consideration." This provides food for thought.
Can New Zealand really claim to be giving children their rights when the “paramount consideration” in educational planning and development is money? Have any of the Education Week speakers faced up to this problem of cutprice education?—Yours, etc., T. AGNEW. July 21, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32359, 27 July 1970, Page 12
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