EDUCATION COMMISSION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 8 June 1912, Page 7

EDUCATION COMMISSION

KY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION

AUCKLAND, June 8

Mr Tibbs, headmaster of the Grammar School, examined by the Education Commission, said he had small faith in the usefulness of agriculture taught "from books. He enlarged on the value rs>f gardening at schools, and made a '■■strona; plea, for the retention of Latin, which he regarded as having the same to the literary side of an education as mathematu-s had to the scientific side. He was not in favor of doing |-away with examinations altogether. He ■approved of scholarships, which were a rstimulus to scholars and teachers.