COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13667, 8 September 1916, Page 3

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

MEETING IN WELLINGTON.

_ (Per Pressj Association,) •■, , '• ' WELLINGTON, September 6. The second annual iiicetiiig of the Council of Education was. held to-day in camera, after the formal opening, at which the lion. J. A, Hanan, Minister of Education, spoke. He said the Council 1 was on its trial. He believed it was capable of doing good Trorls. and that the result of its deliberations would be conduciveHo,sound and practical educational advance; lie looked, howevpf,. in coiiscqiicncc". of certain 'lessons, in.' tho war r ami .conations tiiat ffiofc' arising, to' a" gi'e'at, ; for.iv;ird.;Moyeniehl in; connection' with education wliicli would probably involve the masting of views and. educational ideals throughout, the t Empire,', Problem's would arise, the solution of which would be helped by the right education. There -would be, a demand for,,higherefficiency in the industrial 'world. Scientific 'and 'technical education would come to tin- frout and receive, that, prominent place in connection with . educational work ' which' it merited, 'The feeling of the House of ' Representatives .'and the country was that there was need and room for „im- ' provomeni; in .connection with the work done in the various branches of educaHon, and they must move forward oil the line of thoroughness an.d efficiency. As they had a national system of educa'tioii and wished to ■'make it more effi- • cient, it was desirable that more should be done in the way of co-ordinating and making up the various branches, lie. wanted the ~Council ,to understand.'that some reforms were necessary. -People expected reforms,in certain''directioiis! Had . the National Cabinet'not determined (o confine legislation to matters concerning-the war, lie would have introduced legislation enabling him to' give effect to some ol: his views, in or'del' to make education more practical and efficient.