A CRITIC CRITICISED.
EDUCATION AND MR ATMOR: CHRISTCHURCH, March 2: With regard to the criticism of 'Minister for Education (Hon. Mr : more) concerning New Zealand’s cational system, and the classin, courses, Professor A. Wall, of Ca bury College, comments as folloi ; “My view is that agriculture can be properly and fully learned oi land, banking in a bank, and tli , ,in an office. .1 regard the schoo. place where the mind is to be 'ti land its full powers developed—a in short, where things are to be ed which cannot bo learned at or in the world, or on the far 'anywhere else. To call the school ing academic is therefore quite > it ought to be academic in tin sense, not exclusively vocational.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 8
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123A CRITIC CRITICISED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 102, 30 March 1929, Page 8
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