TEACHING TEACHERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 14

TEACHING TEACHERS

THAI^G^OI^G^.UNIVEH

„ Ilie .teachmg 'of . education was the subject yrpon which. Professor Pennant gave evidence at the University Commission yesterday afternoon. -. ":■■■■■'-■.■ ■ -„. Xhe present arrangement might appear s^isfactoryJtheoreUcall^he said^ fe it Avasihable to break down at any ihne because, tte>vo; institutions, Train^ Colege.and University, were under en° tirejy v different control. For the present.; system to be ; effective . these two' .bodies must S e e eye,to' eye .on' all educational, problems, ■■ or : in: their ■: aijreeraent .to treat, subject matter in a purely, colourless ■ way. Three alternative solutions were: (1) That' the Training : Oollege,resume i the whole responsibilityl (2) .that the University Make over t,he professiona. training ;of , the teacher, affiliating vth 6 ; Training College as an tion, (3). the establishment of a university school of educatibn on a less comprehensive'scheme. : than in No. 2; offerj.mg extended, training to selected, students, but leaving the ordinary teacher's training to the departmental colleges as at present constituted. . ■ „." We can\i hardly expect," he said, for many years, to ;come that every teacher _ should be, a .graduate of I the University, ;but it. seems to me thkt no one .should be admitted to the privilege of teaching who has not come under the influence which should represent, in the best, way, the highest, ideals of the community. The hopeless lack of co-ordina-tion between primary and t'secondary schools is most largely due to the lack of co-ordination,in the:training, experience, and aims of teachers." Professor Rankine Brown was recalled, and amplified his evidence.