SECONDARY EDUCATION
ABOLITION OF EXAMINATIONS
THE FUTURE METHOD.
VIEWS OF PROFESSOR NORWOOD.
'United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph
Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.25 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. Professor Norwood, headmaster of Harrow, declared before the British Association that thong the time had not yet arrived, it would 4 be the correct course to abolish externa! examinations in secondary schools for the average boy - and girl, confining- them to serve onlly avenues tqi -the universities. Every teacher was awame of-the nonsense of the contention that everybody was alike and. ought therefore to be labelled with the same label. The logical course would be to award two certificates, one maintaining that the pupil had not (lowered the existing system, which caused no difficulty to a hoy or girtl of average- academic nihility, and the second offering proof that the pupilL has taken a course of education most suited in the particular ca-se. “I 'believe we .should have an educational axiom, that there should’ never b : e any examination for a- child, before fifteen, except by his own teachers.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 September 1928, Page 9
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