OVER-PRESSURE IN SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOB.
Sir, —In your friendly reference, in today's leading article, to a paper read,before the North Canterbury Educational Institute, you rightly describe me as a disbeliever in the cry of over-pressure in schools, bui wrongly infer therefrom that,' in my opinion, the vicious tendency in the present educational system has not yet developed fatal results. One of the chief points, which I endeavoured to bring out, wa3 that the excessive importance attached to examinations had already produced this very vicious effect namely, that true education was largely neglected because it included many things which cannot be tested, and, therefore, " do not pay in the examination." The results have not been so fatal to the physique of the .pupils in our various schools as they have been dangerous to the growth of a healthy mental and moral intelligence.—l am, &c, GEORGE HOGBEN. Feb. 23. [The fatal results we referred to were o£ over-pressure. We presume that one of the vicious tendencies cf the percentage system is to over-pressure.—Ed. L.T.I
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7484, 25 February 1885, Page 5
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173OVER-PRESSURE IN SCHOOLS. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 7484, 25 February 1885, Page 5
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