"CLASSES OF ONE PATTERN"
"The highest aim of education is variety," said Mr R. M. Lang, president of the Secondary Schools' Assistants' Assocition, at the annual meeting to-day. "I need hardly say that we are very far indeed from having reached this aim, or even from realising it. Indeed, one of the commonest and also one of the most justifiable complaints against our system of education is that it fails just here: that we turn out classes of one pattern, and as long as we have classes of 80 or 90 in our primary schools, such animadversions must continue Not only under such cir.cumstances must the teacher fail to give the individual teaching necessary, but his discipline must almost of necessity—under present conditions of the syllabus at least —be of a rough-and-ready character, and can take little cognisance of the individual." - '
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 111, 11 May 1921, Page 6
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