EXAMINATION SYSTEM
“Paralysing & Crippling” VIEWS OF PROFESSOR Dominion Special Service. Masterton, December 15. Characterising the proposed new system of examination as “paralysing and crippling,” Professor G. W. von Zedlitz, in the course of an address at the break-up ceremony of the Wairarapa High School last evening, said he could see in it no hope of freedom from what he termed the fettering effects of the present matriculation. The professor enlarged on the attitude of the public of New Zealand toward examinations, and contended that it had a mischievous effect on education generally. In his opinion the new system would mean double work with the same equipment and same staff. He favoured extra subjects, however, and considered that every subject taught became a good one if the teacher was keen and the pupils willing. During his 32 years in New Zealand, he had always been amftjred at the excellence of the material available for education in the pupils of the Dominion. It was nothing less than a tragedy that proper use should not be made of this material. The examination system and the attitude of the public, he contended, had caused a misuse of material which was second to none in the world.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 71, 16 December 1933, Page 5
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