TEACHERS' CRITICISM
"BARRACK-LIKE" SCHOOLS v
"Why should schools, even those built recently, be so like barracks?" asked Mr. Alex. Hanna. president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, in an address to a combined meeting of teachers and school committee members at Nelson.
After 40 years of teaching experience, said Mr. Hanna, he must confess that he did not like barracks: they cramped child nature and prevented its development. In order to break with the barracks tradition, he suggested the following improvements:— 1, More liberal staffing. The teacher of classes of 50 or more must be a mentor if not a martinet. With 25 to teach he could be a guide and companion. 2. Far more general ideas of floor space needed by a young and therefore restless human being. The square footage common in offices.and workshops would be a big improvement if provided in schools. 3. An escape from the conception of a school as a single big structure designed tr facilitate the rapid -assemblage o hundreds.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 74, 25 September 1945, Page 6
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167TEACHERS' CRITICISM Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 74, 25 September 1945, Page 6
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