UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 3

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

A CRITICISM. [BY TELEGRAPH—SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. During tho consideration at yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Education Board of the appointment of a delsgale to represent the boo id at tin forthcoming general Education Conference to bo held in Wellington, the chairman passed some criticism on the University of New Zealand. The University, he said, was not doing the work for tho Democracy which it might do. It was a thing apart from the people, and was not in touch with the Democracy. He hoped that some way would be found for making the University a more democratic institution. In America the universities paid far more attention to specialising in certain subjects; here they paid little attention to technical education, and laid too much stress on the arts course, as they did in the Old Country. What did the University here do for agriculture? In America, where a State had no possibilities for agricultural development that New Zealand had, the univeisity of the State would pay special attention to that subject. If we wanted to compete with 1 other countries, we must have' the very beat, and must have a university education, which would help us to get there bast.