HOME LESSONS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sib,— Now the schools are commencing again I should like to ventilate the question of home lessons. I would suggest that none hut memory lessons be given to the children for their home work. Memory lessons have to he learned by all, whereas children often get their sums worked out for them by their parents or elder brothers or sisters. This is not fair to those who have none to help them. I have seen poor pale-faced children sitting up till midnight trying to work out difficult pro’blems, which has been most injurious to their health. Sometimes they have succeeded, and sometimes they have' failed through no fault of their own; and when the prizes have been given out at the end of the year the most diligent scholars have not always succeeded in obtaining one as a reward for their industry.—l am, &c., SCHOOL-LESSON REFORM..
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10259, 30 January 1894, Page 2
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151HOME LESSONS. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10259, 30 January 1894, Page 2
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