"Let - us not make the mistake that everyone can elimb to the same height,” said the Minister of Education at New Plymouth recently (reports the “News’’). "Some can climb Paritutu, some Mount Egmont, and some may even reach the top of Everest.” Using the simile in an educational sense, he said that the boys and girls must be trained to climb to the level for which they were suited. If the last two or three years of a boy’s or girl’s life at school were given a practical aspect in order .that they might develop their individualities it was obvious that they would have been given something of value. In about a fortnight he hoped to make an announcement showing that this ideal would be sasEjpd out,
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 12
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