THE YOUNG STUDENT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 125, 29 May 1928, Page 15

THE YOUNG STUDENT

WORK IN" EVENING CLASSES The advisability of students of fifteen years of ago attending evening classes was tho subje«t for comment by ■Jtr. J. H. I-lowell (director of tho Wellington Technical College) last evening, in his i-eport to tho Board of Governors. "The Director of Education in his interesting and sympathetic address to tho Technical Schools Conference hinte/1 that the organisation of our evening schools was receiving consideration with a view to effecting economies," said Mr. Ho well. "One point at any rate is ripe for investigation, namely, whether any boys or girls under the ago of 15 should be allowed to attend either as free or paying students. With our present system of one large central technical school often situated at a considerable distance from the home of the student, my experience leads me to the conclusion that on such young students time and effort and money is largely wasted because of their physical inability to profit by the instruction at the end of a day's work already long enough at this ago of rapid growth. It must not be forgotten, howover, that tho evening schools, in addition to their educational value, are performing a great social service to tho community; and if tho axe of economy is to be applied there arc other dc-part-ments of public expenditure where less damage would be done."