EXAMINATION PAPERS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The brain-sweating process, as experienced under the " examination paper " teßt, is becoming a serious matter. Nervous disorders, impaired health, restless nights, failing eyesight are more or less the outcome of a too exacting system of Btudy. Too many subjects are attempted; too much detail ana too much specialisation; too much examination, and too much tinsel. The burdens laid upon the memory have been steadily augmented, and examiners, from the primary schools npwards, are still increasing those burdens; but we must bear in mind that the powers of the brain have not inoreased. 'Our brains are not better constituted than those of our forefathers, although where they learned one thing we attempt to learn eiz. £hev learned, and we attempt to learn. —I am, etc., Parent. Dunedin, December 2(3.
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Evening Star, Issue 8399, 27 December 1890, Page 2
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134EXAMINATION PAPERS. Evening Star, Issue 8399, 27 December 1890, Page 2
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