WAY-BACK TEACHERS.
INSPECTOR'S HEED OF PRAISB. (By TclcKranb—Pr«R9 Association.l Wanganui, October 18. That tlio back-blocks t-enchers, to whom the country owes so much, ore sometimes very keen on their work, in spite of tin severe handicap imposed by ilieir surroundings, is evidenced by the last Monthly report of Chief-Inspector Bra.ik to tho Wanganui Education Board, lie mentions the case of threo Waitotara Valley teachers in respect to the prosecution of thoir studies. One —a lady—who cannot attend any instruction class on accouut of distance, studies chemistry in an excellent little laboratory fitted up by her i'alher. Another rides nine miles to catch tho train 011 Fridays, so as to be at class on Saturday morning, and yet another rides over fifteen miles of rough eon 11 try lo rrnch an iiialrtldion centre. The ihfipeetor adds:—"Would that manv of I how, who .ire directly in touch with" facilities for improvement, slumed half the amount of zeal."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1263, 19 October 1911, Page 4
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