EDUCATION CONTROL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 24 July 1930, Page 9

EDUCATION CONTROL

THE ATMORE REPORT RIDICULED BY BOARD “REMINISCENT OF MARK TWAIN.” (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 24. The Auckland Grammar School Board after considering the Atmore education report recorded a resolution to tho effect that the efficiency of the 'great secondary schools of Auckland will inevitably he gravely inipared by the proposed changes as the essence of the system would he a levelling down and complete centralisation of authority in Wellington. The board considered equality of opportunity for all classes and the resulting prominence of* the most intellectual pupils, regardless of class, to be the essence of democracy and that the results of the Auckland Grammar schools are the best tributes to the existing control system The Auckland Education Board also considered the report at a special meeting this morning and adopted a resolution that the report proposing centralised control of education was not in the best interests of New Zealand and would deny to the people the right of electing those whom they wished to govern education.

The chairman said that if iie did not know the Atmore report had been written by two members of the Education department staff. he would have thought it bad been written by Mark Twain when it referred to the “dignified and important place boards would occupy in the now system.”