EDUCATIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 17, 3 January 1920, Page 5

EDUCATIONS.

AND SOCIAL IDEALS. |g| N.Z. EDUCATIONAL INsifll TUTE’S CONFERENCE. WelliNgton, Jan. 9. The annual conference of th* ‘Nd*r® Zealand Educational Institute ed to-day. The president. Mr. CL Munro (Auckland), iu hi* openuto 1 ;. ’ address, emphasized that the eaMm ought to be essentially a moral stitution and its chief end and aim.'%i to instil noble idleaa of life and duty ? , as well a* express themselves in COhduct of the highest type. ... 3 Writer* in education ■in 1 year* laid stress upon tile tance of the recognition of the wNjrt 7 aspect* of education. The# to get away from the ideal efficiency ot the individual And see instead the training or tlto dividual for the general good’ eOl society. That the l«*t Wa» wholly for the school, for th* for the home, for the vocation, the press, and sorietir lt- l self. Each must take it* The school aimed at. training to efficiency in every sense, jpayvQetfj ally, intellectually and. morally, he believed the school conld >ti*ai ,j such a high ideal. '-4 Referring to the GerinaA and>* Prussian educational system*, tn* president said: “The r*sallt we havey seen. The whole German nation j was animated by one ambition—dure for world power. Had th* teadc>fii,l of the nation devoted the > amount of effort and organisation tci| inculcation of really worthy ideals,' there is no place among, civilised nations to Which the»i; country might not have aspirpd attained.” He went on to -say *hMq Germany had featured as idatiL in the schools and iiniverstfies: aAg?, in her whole social structure, and a German nation resting war. - .

Public schools could be qted, had been used, to mould the nationfe as their leaders desired, and titap could be used again in futurn wiMg a worthy ideal not of rioritowja'« the individual or of tl te naffien, bffiM the ideals of social service. ’ F There we*e three ways. .he ccMfa. sidered, by which the *o<aal ’ id*yL could be achieved : By the oortfoHMK? life , of the school, titfoo|m'; .method* it. employed and: ttwwMptetj its studies and curriculum. The porate life of the school had been,JgGJ a great measure .neglected in past. He believed one of the'greirea weaknesses in New Zealand MKeffiKl was over-government by the.t*a*kfS| ers. The fault was not th* the teacher but of th* sy*tim.3dricjj§a placed from’6o to 106 children.imdwßs the ogre of a teacher made him & «hriil «eige*nt. ‘ could be no real 1 education, no d&a velqpment of the individual .updttffi such conditions. Th* problem of large class modified' the > eonMntiffii|i'| of what has possibility m, tional methods. Our conception qfe education should b* one. that .would*’ include all the classes of values, ti||Ej nclude all the classes of values, tirty attainment of which' would better men and Women. . 'Hie Institute adopted a remit aekrj nowledging and z appreciating advance registered by the tempotgnS legislation of 1919 especially ns ifr'lp accompanied by assurance of furthtir reforms and ' reaffirming > > cohtt. victibh that the system of can best be directed by a Board of Education and admmm-;i tered by local education autfidritieifc:’ The Institute also demands that end be. put to the injustice petuated by some Boards in the pointment of teachers in a not in accord with the act. ’ : . BACK.BLOCK'TEACHEfeg; ; '

Wellington, Jan. 3. The vexed-question of the special nasi cognition of the services of teech®r*J of the back blocks Schools was dicusiedj at ths Education Confdrenoe The subject was introduced by. AH’* J.L. Wilson, of Greymouth, whamoWsK that when a new schedule of salarradl, is being framed the asked to make extra grants to in out-of-the-way places. One speakra pointed' out that teachers going ' Samoa were granted special qkmtßes, and he urged that teacher* m bacg block'schANs should also receive some recognition of their special services to. addition to what snmff recomitocn now been given. Miss Ooad( Wellington) said she considered an educawm board should be made responsibleta the provision of board in back: Moua; schools, and if they wen unable to.djfr so, another position should be for the teacher. . • . .jh The motion was carried unanimonsijS -• . ... j;.— GRADING SYSTEM. M Mr Garry moved that no grading and payment of -teacher* wgT be acceptable unless based upon ciency and service alone. Sevpry; speakers contended that efficiency should count. Ultimately a mittee was set up to consider and report, on all remits, dealing with ttua subject. .