FARCICAL EDUCATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 5

FARCICAL EDUCATION.

EXPOSURE AND PROTEST.

At the annual meeting of the Secoidary School Teachers' Association in Wellington, Mr F. M. Renner (Wellington College) moved: "That the Association urge the Government to raise the standard of the Sixth Standard certificate of proficiency examination," and contended that the Government had wastect thousands of pounds by giving places in secondary schools to people who diet not in the remotest degree deserve them. He had in mind a school where there were 200 boys, and fully 80 of themjought not to be there. One of them, when asked the difference between "practice" and "practise," said one was feminine and the other masculine, while another reply was that one was in the present tense and the other in the past tense. When he brought that question before the Inspector-General of Schools, he received the astounding reply, "You must not suppose that we are going to teach so as to co-ordinate primary educatiou and secondary-" What was the Department there for but that? asked Mr Renner, who contended that the whole superstructure o£ education depended on that co-ordina-tion. He protested most strongly against any suggestion to increase the scope of the examination, instead of raising the standard of the subject.

Mr R. H. Rockel (New Plymouth High School) seconded the motion r which was carried.