SERIOUS NEGLECT
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
A VISITOR'S CONCLUSIONS
(By Telegraph—Press »Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, April 18.
The colleges of the University of New Zealand were suffering serious neglect, which had evidently been going on for a long time and which must have the gravest consequences in the education system aa a whole, said Dr. Tyler Dennett, late president of Williams College, Massachusetts In a Commemoration Day address at Canterbury University College
The lecture method of teaching, which, he said, had been discredited for at least 30 years, lack of personal iontact between staff and students, inadequate libraries, inadequate staff salaries —these were the principal signs noted by Dr. Dennett of what he called malnutrition in the education system. He emphasised that he was merely repeating what had been pointed out to him by responsible New Zealanders.
"Let your Government appoint a commission to report on the condition of your higher education as a commission might report on hours of labour in the crafts," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 15
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