EDUCATIONAL REFORM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1843, 18 June 1920, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL REFORM.

MR PARR'S CAMPAIGN.

(Pr» Phiss AssoeiATioh ) CHRISTCHURCH, Juno 17. The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister for Education) told deputations to-day that he did not favour the present system of capitation pavnient. and he proposed that secondary teachers should be paid a definite salary according to their efficiency, instead of their salaries being contrblled by the average attendance. Perhaps some better method of financing technical schools could bo adopted, and he thought it would be ad- ' visuble for tho Department to confer with those engaged in Education.. With regard to agricultural instruction; he thought theywere not doing half enough in this matter. It should be their aim to increase the productiveness of the soil, but nothing in this direction was being done by our university colleges. Our- technical education was.utterly behind the times. We must increase our exports and the only way.to do. that was to teach better farming, methods.' Ho also proposed to take action in the direction of assisting technical schools to teach home 'science on a larger, scale. .As for school committees, he considered it would be an ill day when they ceased to . luive some form of local control and local interest. Ho was an anti-centralist, and until be saw a better system than. the one they had at present he was not going to disturb it.