EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.
AUCKLAND, January 7. The Educational Institute held their second meeting to-day. Mr Wake’s motion for more efficiently bringing the resolutions of the Institute before the Government was carried and referred to the Committee. The report of the Committee on freedom of classification recommended that steps be taken to secure greater freedom for teachers to classify their pupils, so that the annual examinations of the inspectors shall have less effect of encouraging "cram.” The Rev. R, Coates spoke strongly against the report, urging that under a proper syllabus teachers should have no difficulty in passing pupils. He considered that there existed freedom of classification for teaching purposes by the existing regulations. Messrs Gaudy, Watson, and Scott spoke in favor of the adoption of the report, pointing to the English Royal Commission, and holding that, with frequent inspectorial visits, no harm could result from giving teachers power to classify.
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Evening Star, Issue 8407, 7 January 1891, Page 2
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