SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 7

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

STAND AM) IN DOMINION. SUPERIOR TO ENGLISH. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 20. The opinion that the English secondary schools were not up to the standard of those ill New Zealand was expressed l>y Mr J. N. Peart, the new headmaster of King’s College, Auckland, in an interview on his arrival by the Remuera from London this morning. Mr Peart, who is accompanied by his ‘wife and two children, was met at the wharf by Mr H. R. Chalmers, the Wellington representative of the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, and Mr G. H. Batger, Auckland secretary of the association. “It is very interesting to be back in New Zealand,” said Mr Peart, who is an' old boy of the Auckland Grammar School. “I went away with no knowledge of the English public schools, except a recollection that their decadence was at hand according to some leading newspapers. I think there is quite a lot we can learn Lom the English system. As far as actual education is concerned. New Zealanders have a very good name. Mr Peart said he had been told by University people in England that ' New Zealand students were if anything, above the average. The secondary schools, which were run by local authorities, were, in his opinion, not >: up to the standard of the secondary J schools in New Zealand. I ‘-'Here in the Dominion, he said, 5 “ we call Wellington College and Nel•t son College, for example, secondary schools. Those schools are really up to the standard of what in England are called public schools.” Mr and Mrs Peart and family left ■ to-night for Raglan, where Mr 1 eart s mother resides. They will arrivy at Auckland next Thursday.