PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
"If the average size of classes in primary schools were reduced to forty," said Mr. J. Drummond,', M.A.,' while speaking, to delegates at the conference of secondary school assistants this morning, "it should be .possible by the age of twelve for pupil of average ability to reach the Sixth Standard in "English and arithmetic. _ At present backward -md! indolent children cannot receive the attention required in forge classes. The reduction of classes, to my mind, is themost urgent need in this respect. To begin secondary education with a lower si'nriard than the present one in tho subjects mentioned is not. 11 th'nk a change to be desired. Nor would it be advantageous to encourage puoils to enter upon a university course at tot) early an age. Beginning secondary education at the age of twelve should: make it. possible to raise the standard of matriculation. Specialisation before leaving, the secondary schools in mathematics and science, en the one. side, and languages on the other might be adopted, as in some secondary schools in England."-
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 5
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