FREE PLACES IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

Evening Star, Issue 12873, 24 July 1906, Page 5

FREE PLACES IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS.

'TO THR EDITOR, Sir, —I should, like, with your permission, o make, a remark or two in reply to the r-Ue'r which appeared last nig..,, in your viper over the. peti-hiiiiio 'Mtn-o in" the Nriow."' As to his statement re cribbing; ( might .say fh.i.t f have been a pupil :ri one of biif primary schools and also in one of the secondary schools. In. the primary .school 1 can say that I saw little of ho cribbing. This might have been due to t-fto careful and methodical supervision of tKe teachers, whose fi-aiu.ing luul been such as. to eriiible ibe.ni. to cop.; with this evil, and whoso 7se.rsona.lity was such as to create a wholesome influence in tiio direction of honesty. When 1 went to the secondary school I found that the supervision wiir weak, and there was a luck of proper (lisciplinarv *tet.hods. The teachers. I liave siiiee learnt", had in nujsfc calves not hwn tiiorou!?hlv trairied as teachers, but- had been "apjf»mt*d for their scholarship. This secondary school, f might sav. was not in Duntu 1 l . ] llndc 'rsrand that in almost all of the high schools the s;une faultv method of appointments is followed. Mv expeci-<-nce sinw has shown me fh.U the lx»stconducted high schools aie ihos- whose head-masters have been prim an- school teachers, and whose, stalls consist main It of the samo class of teachers.—l am, etc.. " . . „- Anoxhkh tx Tin; Know. July 20.