TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—A' correspondent in your issue of Saturday, who calls himself “Cantab,” has drawn attention to the fact that degrees and 1 high certificates are to be at a discount in the teaching profession if _th» proposals of the Royal Commission on Education are to become regulations!. I think I can tell him why. There are two schoolmasters only on that Commission. They both bold lower certificates than is usual for the - head-master of an average-size city School. No doubt there were good reasons for their being placed on the Commission. They have neither of them been backward in either speaking or publishing their opinions. But whatever these reasons may Jiave heeni, they certainly were neither of them placed'there for their great scholastic attainments. And now the result. It is proposed that the Department recognise no longer the degree® of their hard-working teachers, andl that this young colony, the offshoot of that country whose “ knowledge ” has been power, should pay a heavy premium to ignorance. Surely,, in a country in which 1 there are. so many thinking men, such a great injustice can be averted. 1 m- eto - LOT.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12584, 20 August 1901, Page 6
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