EDUCATING NEW ZEALAND.
UNIFORM SCHOOL BOOKS 'OPPOSED.
Press Association. DUNEDIN, Feb. 20,
At r a meeting of the Education Board .to-day tho question of uniform school hooks was discussed. The inspectors furnished a report opposing uniformity, and the Board carried the following resolution:—“That tho Board expresses its earnest and emphatic protest against.such a proposal as i uniform set of books being forced upon the schools of the Dominion, as being opposed alike to the best interests of education and of tho freedom of the people. The Board will offer strenuous opposition ,to any endeavor to imbue the minds of tho children with one set of ideas from one end of the Dominion to the other.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 2
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115EDUCATING NEW ZEALAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 20 February 1908, Page 2
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