Changing roles in education
Sir, —I agree with J. Dugdale to a large extent. Examinations should start much earlier than the fifth form. In fact, examinations at every stage of education are probably the only cure for present-day low educational standards. I myself stopped studying geography at the Standard VI level. Yet by this time I had studied every country in the world so thoroughly that it has stuck for more than 30 years. My daughter, on the other hand, who is taking geography for School Certificate this year, still has to ask where Europe is, and whether Sweden is populated by the Swiss. She is not below average, but this is the first year she has ever had to learn geography as such. Her primary school social studies consisted mainly of visits to the Maori section of the museum. Isn’t it time learning was put back into education?—Yours, etc., DISTURBED PARENT. June 11, 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33251, 14 June 1973, Page 16
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