EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 399, 7 January 1909, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

NOT LIKED BY TEACHERS. • •,(. (BI TELEGRAPH—rRES3 ABSOCSVIION.) ' DunetilHi January 6., •. Tho Educatidnal ■■; Institute - v Conference = closed to-night, when the following- motions; weiro carried' V- V • , (1) That district -institutes, especially., ujr the larger centres,,-'take.,-into consider'auoil' the question of the useyof cadets, rBoljo?}; children, and' publio -school ■teaQherpt for . purpose of . display -witn i.a:; view:.to. : taking l notion, to limit displays..;.'::: :'..:'.' r v.-kt: ■, (2) That tho Minister be asked to sta£a .definitely before: the "end of - January grotyidk i on which tho proviso. to. Clause :• 12- of. the .Teachers Superannuation BiJ|?ho ji)ade opo'far•fcive. ■ (3) That'tho attention of the Minister be -drawn.- to tho 'fact : that < tho Marlborough ■ Education Board, by .appointing' teacKerS only, from- year -to year, makes/a, deliberate and- benefits • conferred* by the Tea'chcTjS Incorporation and Courtj of.-AppealfAct. Tho next annual meeting is fixed-for Wellington. ( ; OFFICE-BEARERS AND FWDS. „ -..The election, of rresul,ted,.as fot . lows |;Mt,.:vG.' W.. 0. MacclonaM <. (Otago); . secretary Mtv/ W. '' Foster, -(-\Y<el-~ lington), treasurer, Mr* ,1!. II Hughes (Chnstchurch) jiiumTpiEqiai members ofi.cxe<ftt- . tive; Messrs. 1 ; GjivMurray... {Auckland)[) OR> Caughley '• (Wellington), and J. Harknesa (Reofton) ' 4 J -, T J ■: The- balance-sheet Showed: tho-, recoipts for, tho year to he '£1404 2s 6sd , and the ball ;> anceiin'.hand lSsi' - cheques'£62 4b.-OJ3.C- Th"e defence-fund amounted to 15?, Id.' <' i- J " SQME B#LJ> .RESOLUTIONS 1 The following additional resolutions'' vrote oarned(l). Education jDegartment ■ be- asked .to formulate- regulations -as" £S c ilw sick- ; leave grantedfHo ; consideration, length, of-iemcs^and.also--t-a ;.-•■ aliow- for , .granting r leave :di- absence on full pay after oertamjKnods-of- aa is the y l iristitute'''c6nsid^^^ " are'compelled undetboard regulations to sit fori ishould "'not i examination.Jf«cs-.-'.-.'(3).'That >in .' the 'oi

1 , ablef-.- ; .- c:f (4y L j before!tho'riotice 1 of , the , Mimster'-fhoj necessity for providing for-better-i physical/conditions l for-'ohildt , ony' es- : pecially with regard to heating ■ and oqtsfdo shelter.-. (5)" Thai;, in: thfe. best-"mtSresfs of. .. education,. Education. Bq(}rds}:bo 'requested" t-o grant .teachers two ,or - more days in eyorv ; v : -year :;'for. I l th'a-'fjur .bf'Visiting^.thej'bejt' & inv;%e •: ! ;(5);: -That ttao attention of tho Department - be,drawn,,tq_thaj£sistuiß.jiiscr£p£uiGi2_jji.fsia payable.for subjects,in Class C examination- . Government bo.'asked, to- set up a . ' permanent' commission tp'revise'' place names jn:,.New.,Zealand. with, a view to removing : anomalies M in repetition of same. name, and in. spelling, and ta ( bestow new names:

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AS Slty ROBERT SfpUT SAW, TFrEM. v spjcu.b-cpnnEspoNDSHT.i :■ , ' Dunpdlfl, Jirouary 5 . ■ •Sir Robert Stout -after'attending as-a' viir~ . ' fei;-the meeting'of tho'K'ew Zealand Educa- -'. ,tidnal-Institute :was; interviewed, arid said: .. .-. ','The >. first, .association, of in Otago, and I belief inVNow< ZSalaut3*,-was.'ialled A 'j.few; tethers ; ; ana : 'l; : was ;'th9 i hbh. secre- .. -iar;.;t,»Ther,. .Otdgo v Schoolmasters' .< Association was ' afterwards merged into the New • Zealand Institute..-..Tho present institute is an; evolution from tho small: start which we jnado.mJJiQsa..tlftss._llie 4)upil 4cacliet-sys- - ■ tem ; ; did /V pot. .in. That was a . later.. sobooL sup- • posed to bo sufficiently cqmpjied, ;hsd', a ;'' •#* '? j; v r one iteacbej-;. % sewing,. mistrepjiw- -Tho wgro ; ;:-/a^o^ed r ..th6;swid^st'possible^ibirtjS , :in,:cJi6()s-' ing l3 their„own i>i sj)labusi' tyft the ■:-. Grammar School;■and-; v.ivenj;»n .to."t the' i North • . . School,*-, I-.started; , a^,class i ;at' nine ,o'cloclfifjn .■ > It»^wssj-entirely .; voluntary' pupils .to: attend -or riot. : -The'subjects ,which, I taught were-Latin and English, grammar.", I thought,,then, - and:"l ; f think, now,-,that.■.formal,..grammar,isineces-sary. for .those who •: have not the opportunity >. : of . acquiring .a language such as: Latin, German,, or- Greek, and: who do not propose to ; attend? secondary schools. . Formal grammar- , js really logic, - and is a means of training ~ the, reasoning ►.faculties. .-. I vdomot mean to say, that formal.. grammar is necessary for. : . writing , goo d; English—the power of ■! literary .expression is a.gift.and -it comes—like othert: gifts—often 'the, training' in formal grammar.

ELFLE SHOOTING IN THE SYLLABUS. ■ ~-A; remit from two North Island district" in- ■ stitutes . totho- New--Zealand Educational .Institute .proposing that riSo shooting should •be., placed on- tho syllabus as an optional subject, was negatived. Its.'.supporters argued that' the cadet movement 'entailed- a, great : ideal of oxtra work on.teachers, 1 but," against this,, the possibility of;.the teachersV timo-on . Saturdays being . greatly infringed on was : urged.-yMr.vJ.; Jeffery,. of.Dunedm, mentioned'that ;some.teachers.'had. been diacourogefl.byr the. Defence Department in their : effort : % establish .rifle: clubs: in; connection with their schools, with a view to encouraging; a universal scheme of■ military- training, • but. there was. a possibility" of . tile. Education Department assuming control. BROAD HINT TO MR. HOGBEN. , .During -Tuesday afternoon's discussion on .the. desirability; of, retaining in -the syllabus B great deal of tho -"mathematical goo-' graphs, - one member of the: New Zealand \ Institute .said: .that; tto , 'alttmpt;ito Hisach 1 it : largely : niisdirected ettort.. - Ho. attributed its inclusion in- the BjUabus. .-t0..-.tho. known : mathematical and - a c o°? 0D i Ica las the Inspector-General ; ■ v . and; asked why this facto? : should, ... .be. allowed to have so' strong an: influence on the-children of New. Zealand.; Ho stated :. tnat-parents ; and : ;'thepublic were..beginning to. comment on tho ignoratice of children iu geography; and suggested that somfc ot -'A h -° : e " cr py antl time now devoted to ? r, • B b,ould bo transferred to a ./ |Wdy- ; of political geography. His motion 1 in lavour of an alteration to the - syllabus' bv. excision . of. 'some .of the geography ed. ;