WOMEN TEACHERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1711, 30 December 1919, Page 5

WOMEN TEACHERS.

THE INFERIOR INTELLECT. V, NEED FOR BETTER ENVIRONMENT. Per Press Association.’ p WELLINGTON. Dec.’ 30. The sixth annual conference of , the Nc.y?' I|| Zealand Women Teachers’ Association fe opened this morning, Miss E. A. Chaplin, I® ii-A. t of Canterbury, presiding. In her m| opening address , she said that she was til fifthly .convinced of the ner d for a national 1 insistence of the observance of hygienic |j principles, if the British race was to main- / tain its prestige' among the peoples of . the f earth. The Department for children’s wel- I fare and special schools. in the Dominion, : 'r had under their control on December 51 last*' 4497 children, many of whom were innocent! suffer rs of unfit parentage, and the number was anmially increasing. • Education districts demanded the best possible equip ment in schools and above all-that the right individuals should be attracted to the pro. ' fusion. No price was too high to/ pay fo I Tie right sort of teachers and environment of which education might form the greater f u - t, determined whether the intelligence v of the child should remain stunted or dibit Id be brought, to maturity; lout a trained intelligence alone w-ould not produce a worthy race of Britishers, for the J trinity of mind, soul and body must be re t mannered. Thorough physical l training | and sound moral leaching by precept and practice must b< an essential part of a sue- /M cessful system It was for the weaklings fM that a bettor place was ncedr-d in the Dominion educational system. The curricu 1 n rtvv'' in the schools was not. made for sub-no-children and teachers became weary //{ their.attempt to drag them up to the a?/ age level. There was nothing so paraffipN m its elmitiftpn the spirit of the llio consciousness of an inferio’iitv pea ted efforts off his part faihVv: II