EDUCATION PROBLEMS
IKE QUESTION OF AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTION / [Peh United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 14. The desirability of giving secondary education more of an agricultural bias, as advocated by the Hon. H. Atxnore, was criticised by Mr Morice in his presidential address at the _ Secondary School Assistants’ Association Conference. Experience had shown, he said, that for reasons more or less obvious there was little demand for agricultural courses, and a start must be made in some other way than that pf giving a smattering of agriculture in the existing schools. Speaking of the complaints of an unsympathetic attitude towards the farming community, he said that some of the farmers seemed t j believe that because 90 per c’in. of New Zealand’s exports consisted of farm products the farmers themselves did over 90 per cent’, of the production in the dominion. The schools were probably largely to blame for this in not producing a more intelligent appreciation of the process of production. The Minister had said that our educatio: al system was out of touch with the needs of the community. In this he was undoubtedly right, but it was surely as important to give it a technical bias as an agricultural one.
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Evening Star, Issue 20483, 14 May 1930, Page 8
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