AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

ARNE BORG AGAIN

(United Presa Association—By Electric Telcg.-ph—Copyright).

HONOLULU, April 13,

'A new world’s record is claimed for Arne Borg who won the thousand metre swimming event in the war memorial nntntorium here in 13 minutes 3-u seconds.

EDUCATIONAL

VANCOUVER, April lb

'i hat here has been a definite revolution of thought and method of pedagogue instruction throughout the Empire, has Keen one outstanding feature, perhaps the keynote of the Conference of the National Council of Education in the past week. The speakers dealt with the necessity of a greater degree of electric humanism in training the young. This was again emphasised on Saturday in an address by blank Milner, of New Zealand, who declared no secondary school could be successTul that does not endeavour to create interests apart from sot subjects of the curriculum. Jfe instanced tlie necessity of a more sympathetic attitude towards the adolescent scholar, of stimulating the mind with helpful inspiring forces and associations. He strongly advocated school libraries and stressed the importance of humanism rather than the retention of the examination fetish, as a means of establishing, the competency pupil.