CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 156, 29 March 1926, Page 4

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

TOO MUCH MASS TEACHING X “Dominion” Special. Palmerston North, March 27. , There was a representative gathering of teachers of the Manawatu district in Palmerston North to-day, when a complimentary luncheon-Avas tendered Mr. F. G. A. Stuckey, senior inspector of the Wanganui education district ( who has been appointed to the position of senior inspector of Otago. Miss G. E. Haggett, president of the Manawatu branch of the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute presided. Representatives were also present from Ohakune. The president and other speakers expressed the pleasure that the teachers of thir district felt at Iris promotion, and also the regret they felt at his departure. Appreciation was also expressed of the work Mr. Stuckey had done in this district.

In reply, Mr. Stuckey said he was pleased to meet the teachers of the district, who, he said, had given him the greatest co-operation, and had been as much an inspiration to him as the inspectorate had been to them. In speaking about the future of education, Mr. Stuckey said that it was necessary to pay due attention to individual development. At the present time there was too much mass teaching, and as many as 60 pupils were placed under the charge of one teacher. It was also necessary to develop the child on lines that would make him a social citizen. In the past too much attention has been given, to “bread and butter” subjects, and it was essential that attention should be given to cultural development,, so that the child would be able to enjoy its leisure hours.