Education spending
Sir, —The question whether we are getting sufficient value for our money from our education system is especially pertinent today, and is the tip of an iceberg of a healthy public scepticism. The education roads in New Zealand are infested with band-waggons, usually imported, having ho current warrants of fitness, with drivers who are frequently intoxicated. Mr Brewer referred to this gimmickry at the end of his article when questioning the value of much of the “new” things in education gadgets, the extravagances of the free-text-book scheme, etc. However, Mr Brewer claimed that the agitation against the so-called reduction in the education vote came from both teacher and student groups. As far as I know, ; very few branches, if any,
of the chief teacher organisations, the P.P.T.A. and the N.Z.E.1., have supported this agitation against the cut. Could the leaders of these bodies throw any further light on this?—Yours etc., V. F. WILKINSON, March 25, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32566, 27 March 1971, Page 18
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