RURAL EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 6

RURAL EDUCATION

IS THE COURSE SUITABLE' (It TEtEOBtP'I— WIBIS ASSOCIATION".) PAHIATUA, 4th May According to statement* made by the headmaster of the Pahiatua District High School at the meeting of householders, the secondary department was not very popular, and therefore loses its designed utility. The headmaster said it was claimed when the course was introduced that the children living in dairying districts would want to increase their knowledge of dairying, the same as those living in mining districts would Want to know more about mining, and bo on. __ This was vei-y pretty in theory, but he declared that tho whole of the children in the loeaJ class hato the sight of a> cow lie had enquired from the class ,how many were going on the land, and there was not a solitary one. He contended that tho rural course was not a suitable one. The syllabus was drawn up in Wellington, and teachers had no power to alter it. The master also criticised the present system of medical inspection. A motion was passed urging the remedying of the defects. The committees throughout tho Wellington district have been circularised on the matter.