STANDARDISED EDUCATION
DANGER IN NEW ZEALAND. “TOO MUCH LIKE MASSPRODUCTION.” CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 17. “There is a very real risk of thq whole system of education coming under more or les3 direct control of the Education Department,” said the Rev. E. C. Crosse, headmaster of Christ’s College, at the prize-giving. “We are * threatened with bureaucratic government, and if you ask me what this would amount to I would express it in the limerick which a brilliant ecclesiastic wrote to parody the tenets of Calvinism”:
There was a young fellow said Damn, At least I learned what I am. I’m a, creature that moves Along predestined grooves; Not exactly a bus, but a tram. What was wanted, said Mr Crosse, was schools of all types. If they were to do their work prosperously they must have a reasonable freedom of control to expand along their own lines. Bishop West-Watson, warden of the college, also referred to the danger of standardised education. “It seems too much like the mass-production of which Ford has given us such a good example,” said the Bishop. “Education is a spiritual thing, which cannot be confined within iboo narrow, limits.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 17, 19 December 1927, Page 5
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192STANDARDISED EDUCATION Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 17, 19 December 1927, Page 5
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