School Committees.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6003, 20 November 1890, Page 3

School Committees.

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Sir..—Your leading article iv hist night's is-.in cannot f til to ho appreciated by a larlro section «'f this community at the present time. 'Ifie enquiry into our local school management now goin . on. clearly points to the necessity for radical reforms such as you have pointed to. It could never have hi.a.-n contemplated by the founders of our educational system that School Committees should lord it over teachers and treat them as mere servants of theirs, as is now being done in too many cases, 'i ht grand old schoolmaster of Kirkcaldy should have been anionji-.-t us lately. Thomas Carlyle would have hadsom:. hitigp'-rtieuhirly strong to say to same of the.-c Si-hool Committee worthier who insult teachers with such remarks as the following:—" N. gentleman would undertake the char .c of a primary . ohool." Such latigum,..) from anyone with tho interests of education at heart i« inconceivable, excepting as proceeding from a spirit of vindictive personal malevolence, and yet this opinion which I have just quoted was publicly expressed by a member of outpresent . chool Committee, and can be subm .miated. Being a matter of public interest ijiiite apart from the questions now

mil judue. Intention it only in connection with the reforms referred t. iv your article. —I am, _:c,

Ax Old Resident. Waipukurau, November 20th, 1890.