THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3033, 16 March 1881, Page 2

THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

|TO THE EdITOB OF THE DAILY TeLEGBAPH.] Sib, —I was glad to see your article laet night on the educational system, as it struck the nail on the head. Here ia Napier the trath of your remarks id plainly evidenced in the fact that several hundreds of pounds are being spent in the erection of an infant school, while ia country districts not a penny can be had to make necessary repairs to existing school buildings. To use your owa expression, '• if there be any virtue ia our education system " surely it ehould be expected in the first thing that is necessary, namely, suitable buildings ia which to teach children capable of learning. But I consider that there can be no virtue in a system that will squander money for the care of town infants, and leave children in the country, whose ages demand education, without school buildings. It is asserted that the Napier district school was pinched for room, and that it was necessary to get rid of the infants to accommodate the classes of the higher standards, Well and good j accommodate by all means the higher standards and turn out the infants, but don't build a school for them and allow the higher standards in the country to go without teaching at all. Foractual State purposes infant schools are a monstrous folly, and money spent upon them ia money thrown away that could be expended beneficially.—l am, &c, A Country Fabmeb. March 16th, 1881.