"SCHOOLS OF PLAY"
DANGER TO EDUCATIONAL
PROGRESS
(By Ttiemph.)
(Spicial t» "Thi Evtnitifl Past.")
I'ALMERSTOtf N., This Day. "Is there the danger that we are milking schools of play »nd so eliminating the intense effort that is necessary for progress V\ asked Inspector Lambourne when addressing teachers in Palmerston North on Saturday. The inspector thought there was. Of late a great deal of attention, he said, had been paid to retardates, but practically no notice was taken' of the accelerates or the brighter children who composed the greater percentage of scholars. It was well-known that the average student could .accomplish his or her work in two-thirds the time ordinarily taken by the adoption of more organised methods of study. There were vicious habits of dawdling in school Jife.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 10
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