EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8304, 7 June 1907, Page 6

EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.

CPp,t Press Assoc'BXion.j NEW PLYMOUTH, June 6. To-day the Hon. G .Fowlds opened the New Plymouth Technical , School in the presence of a large gathering. There are already 191 students, exclusive of seventy teachers, attending the Saturday classes, and GOO in school classes. Mr Fowlds, in his remarks, said that modern education methods endea(voured to make instruction fit the circumstances and life of the pupils. New Zealand had lagged behind for I some time in this matter, but was now coming up to modern ideas. He considered that employers could do much to make the classes of full | value by offering increases in salary tj> employees reaching certain stages of efficiency. The revolution in seicordary education, making secondary schools no longer the preserves of [ the wealthy, was costing much | n.oney, and unless the people of the colony were prepared to make sub stantial endowment for.» education, the pruning knife would have to be used. DUNEDIN, June-6. The annual meeting of the Country School Committeee' Association was held to-day under the presidency of Mr T. McKenzie, M.H.R. A large number of delegates were present from all parts of Otago, and. lesdutions were adopted in favour of pajment of teachers for doing seventh standard wdrk, adequate of schools, restoration to Education Boards of control of building vote, upkeep of school buildings by Education Boards, erection of shelter sheds by Boards, addition of rooms to schools for changing wet garments, facilities for obtaining equal opportunities for country children as for city, children, free travelling to pupils attending technical classes over a sixty mile limit, election by Board of a teacher of aptitude in imparting instruction in agriculture, and a recommendation to the Government to defray cost of two years in same in an up-to-date institution m America and Europe in order to fully qualify him to give instruction in this colony, encouragement of local as against central control ; district high schools to be under the entire control of Education Boards ,and better salaries to be paid to te ichers in charge of free secondary education.