MORE HASTE, LESS SREED
IN PASSING STANDARDS. As an old inspector of the Wellington Education Board, Mr. Robert Lee now chairman, had a few observations to make yesterday afternoon on the need for the "make haste slowly" policy ln^ the promotion of schoolchildren. "There i& a great danger, 1 ' he said, "of children being promoted too quickly. They get through their standards too soon. Formerly there were always failures in the standards. Now they pass through all the standards, maybe, 'in five years, before they are thirteen. They leave school after they have passed the fifth standard, and, unless Standard 5 is hardened, the system of education will not be as good as it might be. In a great number of cases there has been too gieat laxity. A very close .scrutiny should be made by headmasters. It is an absurd thing that a whole class should be passed on into the next standard without the weak end/the tail, being held back. It is only my personal opinion." Several members : There's a lot in it. Mr. Lee concluded by declaring that the board would support its inspectors in insisting upon a more careful promotion from standard to standard.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1909, Page 2
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MORE HASTE, LESS SREED
Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1909, Page 2
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