fast Becoming Utility Service’
Education Here
WELLINGTON, Thu. (P.A.).-Edu-cation in New Zealand was fast becoming a utility service which, under the pressing needs of industry, was preparing children for an existence based on material conceptions and nothing more, said the Principal of Wellington Girls’ College (Miss E. M. North) at the college prize-giving ceremony last night. "All is not well with education," she said. “It can fairly be charged against most New Zealand citizens that they regard the purpose of education as purely utilitarian. “It seems to me that the needs of industry are so pressing that we forget that pupils come to school to learn. “Our own objectives are material ones and we lack a moral incentive. “Inspectors and vocational guidance officers interviewing pupils had been very impressed by the shrewd. and calculating manner in which pupils, view their futures. “I pray that we should not forget the things of the spirit.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1948, Page 5
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153fast Becoming Utility Service’ Northern Advocate, 9 December 1948, Page 5
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