CRAZE RUN WILD
EXAMINATION SYSTEM CONDEMNED By Telegraph.—Press association. —Copyright. Sydney, April 5. At toe teachers’ annual inter-State Conference a paper was read on - tho examination system. The writer complained of a craze for examinations run wild. Primary schools, he said, were being run for the purpose of preparing pupils to pass examinations for entrance into secondary schools, which ignored the fact that a large majority of the pupils would not reach such institutions. The paper urged the adoption of u system which would test tho general ability, common sense, and fitness of the student.. Resolutions condemning the present system and cramming for examinations were .-idojitcd.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 7
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107CRAZE RUN WILD Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 170, 6 April 1923, Page 7
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