SECONDARY EDUCATION.
WIDENING ITS SCOPE. TENDENCIES IN NEW ZEALAND. (BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION .) WELLINGTON, May 25. “We are going somewhere, but only God knows where,” said Mr J. A. Colquhoun, M.Sc., in his' opening presidential address at the annual meeting of the Secondary School Assistants-’ Association to-day. In a survey of the trend of education in New Zealand, he said that it had been amply demonstrated that children should begin their post-primary education at an earlier age and that secondary -school curricula should be widened, but he urged that both changes could be made gradually without a disruptive change, and retaining almost the present organisation. and with little extra cost. Arguing that no idea, especially a preconceived one, should be accepted without ample evidence, he traversed a number of statements made in regard to the junior high schools proposals, and declared that they were not supported by convincing evidence, and urged that a thorough understanding of what was proposed should preclude their acceptance.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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