FELLOWSHIP GROUPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8

FELLOWSHIP GROUPS.

FORMATION IN WELLINGTON

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, July 22.

Speaking on how New Zealand could benefit from the New Education Conference, Dr. William Boyd said that there were three outstanding characteristics of new education. First, there was the right human attitude on the part of the teacher. The second point was that a great deal of what was being taught was not vital. For instance; school arithmetic was an atrocity. What they wanted was the new arts, the new sciences of the twentieth century. The third point was a necessity for a change in methods. Teachers should teach something they wanted to teach and what the pupils wanted to learn. Mr Boyd also said that he would suggest that French, ns (aught in New Zealand, was one of those old things that had outlived its' usefulness. He was not denying that a knowledge of languages was not one of the fundamentals of education, but lie was suggesting that their make-up should be in terms of their own social life and not something they passed examinations with and then forgot. The meeting decided that a provisional organising committee, with Professor Gould, professor of education at Victoria University College, as chairman, be elected to arrange for the formation of New Education Fellowship groups throughout Wellington.