SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 4

SCHOOL CURRICULUM

QUESTION OF REVISION. COMMITTEE* SET UP. P«r Pren Association. AVELLINGTON, July 24. An indication that a committee had been set up to go into the question of revising the school curriculum was given by the Minister of Education to an Educational Institute deputation. As a layman, lie would say that they were trying to do too much with the curriculum. The question was: How much did tlio pupils retain. A business man had told him that the schools were not turning out as good as specimen as twenty years ago and that the pupils were not receiving as good a grounding. f In reply to a plea for smaller classes, ho said that a certain amount had already been done to meet the teachers. He realised that the last word had not been yet. Out of 2923 classes in tho schools of grade four and upwards there were 263 with less than 31 pupils under one teacher; 649 classes under 40; 990 under 50; 813 under 60; and 182 under 70. There were only two schools with a total number over SO, and • thoso two classes were to be remodelled.