N.Z.E.I. CONFERENCE
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. •[per press association.] WELLINGTON, May 11. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute was opened to-day. In his opening address, the President, Mr. G. F. Griffiths, said it was time for a national stocktaking in education. All those educational processes that led to progress, must be developed and the factors that, hindered must be eliminated. The child was the most valuable asset the country possessed, and in the anticipated new deal in education, money consiflerations or interests must not be permitted to checkmate the forward policy. A revival of sane public opinion regarding the claims of education might well reassure the Government that a progressive policy, entailing increasing expenditure. would receive genera! support . He recommended a determined effort to raise the status of primary schools so that they would be second to none, in the educational system. Elementary education was the universal leaven. He also urged the raising of the status of primary school teachers, and also Government recognition of the Institute.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1936, Page 12
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