FULL BENEFITS MISSED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12526, 11 April 1935, Page 7

FULL BENEFITS MISSED

HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. PUPILS’ STAY TOO SHORT. Pupils at the Gisborne High School this year. include 43 per cent who arc iu the first year at the institution, reported the Rector, Air Hutton, to yesterday’s meeting of the High School Board. On the professional . side,, be stated, the total of 295 pupils was distributed, as follows: First year 109; second 87; third 60; fourth. 28 and fifth 11. There are 89 |ComniC'.rjC'ia,l' pupils, comprising l 25 first year, 22 -second and 15 third. The ruiaf pupils number 43, comprising ’7 first year, 10 second and six third. Home course pupils include 11 first, year, 12 second and nine third. “It appears to me,” added Air Hutton, “that a great many pupils who enter school do not. carry their training: to the most profitable -point but fab out by tho wayside. Pupi'.s who leave, say, at the end of one year do of, course, receive some bonefit but they do not obtain definite qualifications and would receive proportionally greater advantage by remaining at school longer and completing some particular course ho that course what it may.” “Of course, the aim of a]] secondary instruction is to prodhee a better equipped citizen, one UDo, to employ bis leisure time with pleasure to himself, as well as to render him self more effective, if possible, in his vocation. This aspect is very -important even in the case of those taking what appears to their parents to he a pre-vocaticnal ... . course and may .quite well he the main pifrpo.se in keeping the boy or,girl, at, school during the years' of greatest development. , OeVtainly., it, is -in , the- -later year? of school life that, one notices, tho greatest measure of benefit being obtained,by pupils when they .begin to shoulder responsibilities- andj to broaden ,their outlook.” p