TRAINING OF TEACHERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 13

TRAINING OF TEACHERS

WANTED IN WELLINGTON

CITY URGED TO MAKE STAND

A subject of which much has .been heard during the last year or two cropped up again at today's meeting of the- Education Board, when Mr. L. J. McDonald moved that "the board strongly represont to the Minister of Education the advisability of providing for a teachers' training college in Wellington when he decides to resume the training of young people for the teach: ing profession." Mr. McDonald remarked upon the failure of Wellington to take a stand for its own rights and to its lack of civic interest and pride. Wellington, he thought, being central and the Capital, wns the place for a training college, for teachers.

The question whether the training of teachers should be carried on in conjunction with the University Colleges or separately was discussed. Mr. A. C. Blake remarked that Wellington had made its protest, when the training of teachers in Wellington had ceased: there ought to be. he thought, a Chair of Education in Wellington.

"We accept too much without protest," said Mr. J. J. Clark. Two training colleges had been opened, but Wellington's remained closed, and there should be a protest. The chairman, Mr. W. V. Dyer, said that if anything was done in Wellington it would necessitate building: other centres had the advantage of having the necessary buildings. It having been made clear that the motion did not necessarily involve tho building of a training college, the mover agreed to the deletion of the words "a teachers' training college" and to the substitution of "the training of teachers" in their place.

In this altered form the motion was carried, members remarking that the alteration (proposed by Mr. Dyer) was a clever bit of tactics which satisfied the divergent views of the several members of the board.