THE TEACHER'S LIFE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 4

THE TEACHER'S LIFE

FAR FEWER MEN

REPORT OF TRAINING COLLECE,

Tlio Principal of tlio Training Coltegfr (Mr. J. S. Tcniiant) . submitted his annual report on the yorking. of "tlfo institution to tlio Wellington liduuatidn-i Board yesterday. . "The session (said tlio roport) opened on February 2G and closed on December 6, a worjeing year of 40 weeks. Ferty-. , four senior students returned to- <sbinpleto their training and 61 new stiitteiifcs worb admitted, making a '.total tyf WS, of, whom 86 were women and. 2.t won;. nieii. This latter number will riot maintain tho present proportion oi; men in tlio teaching profession in New Hen- ', land—a fact to bo regretted: as id the early stages of n country's dcvelopineut moro malo tenchers are certninly ijcetl" cd in tlio outlying and Tcwotcr tfe-. tricts. Of tlio total number of J. ; 08 students, 105 had been pupil toudiuifs of probationers. Tlio various districts were . represented as follow:—Wcffi'iigtOH* 38; Nelson, 7; llawko's Hay, !23; i\larlbofoiigh, 5; -Wniigniini, 24; Grey, 3; teaiiaki, 6; AVestland, 2. i "l''iftoen i>or cent, of oiir students live at homo, fifty per cent; at tijo. threo students' hostols and tho.,T6m.aining 35 per cent, aro accoiiimotia.tcd jit private lodgings. While acknowledging : tlio valuable assistaneo reiitlefeti by, theso hostels, I iifust express regret at'. .the.,fact that the Macarthy- iriisieeS ;c6uld not seo their way to 4'ss.M in flift foundation of a, residimtiaj school of domestic science as recommended to them by the public meeting.'.or|g-iimil-y, ; called by the Society for the Protfectioh of Women and Children. "Health is so essential: an a^efc,to : the teacier'that I feel to. mako some remarks on, tliai r subjecli, more, particularly as it-is a very gen-; eral opinion that the schools a|fi'i)ofc getting tho robust typo of cbfistitiitidn. that the exacting profession -e,f t ; li6 ! teacher demands. . The health of the,.students—more particularly in the ease .of the women—has not been as good; as it sTiould bo. This has been specially noticeable in the case of those liyjiig in. lodgings and one of the .£re.dis'.p<s.sirtg causes has undoubtedly bfien ilio jack of Bupervivsion out of col}eg& lipui's-T' for students are often unwise, ijot so inucli in the amount of worjj; untetaken. as in.'.tUQ' manner of doing; 'tliatr-Svoxk. The-crowded condition "of tttg buildings and the lack of space for pr : o§er leered ation have prevented our dfitnginiiclito counteract the results of wrong methods of study. The Pepartrhetat "edndu.ejsa medical' examination befere granting, a teachers';.certificate to any' applicant If this examinaiioh was liekl befprfe, instead of after, the course: of trainiug, inucli waste of energy could be prpyeiited'even if it necessitated al doUßjei&i--animation:, Tho present system o'ir.scw cepting the family._ dector's certifiCaite is open to many objections.' ,, : - : - '■