OTAGO'S TEACHERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 142, 19 June 1925, Page 4

OTAGO'S TEACHERS

SIR JAMES PARR'S EULOGY,

(HI TELEBEAVH SPECIAL TO THB K3ST.I DUNEDQJ, This. Daj

Sir James Pair, in returning thanks for his welcome at, the meeting of the Education Board, said: "It ought to be satisfactory to know that the day has gone bywhen- education was treated as a side line. Education in the past few years has assumed its proper position in the community, as the front line of activity, and as an activity of first-rate national importance. It is true that you in Otago haVe always recognised the real value of education in the community. No part of New Zealand has taken so much care for the sound education of its young as Otago, and particularly Dunedin. We in the North are improving in that respect. I am in the sixth year of my office. The work has been extremely interesting, but very hard and strenuous. I believe that next to the position held by my esteemed leader (Mr. Coates) I had the hardest work to do, and thcmain reward is that we have done something to advance the great cause. When w e look around and see the great changes for betterment of the people in education, that must be our satisfaction. - At the high schools I saw a splendid type of the young man and young womarTteachcr —none better in. New .Zealand. .Tho same remarks apply to the. assistants in your primary schools. What I like about your teachers is their individuality oz personality. I would fail in my duty i( I did not pay a tribute to the work done iv Dunedin by the teachers."