EDUCATION.
To the Editor of lhe Hebaed. Sib, —The Educational Board seems determined to establish half- weekly schools in the oat-districts of the province. Now, ia it right, is it just, to tax all ulike without giving all the same value for their money, —to educate some and only half educate others? Mr. Eox says ilie Government has 110 right to tax nil, only to educate some, and it may with equal truth be said the Educ-tional Board has no right to educate some and only half educate others. As well might the British Government endeavour to raise an army of life guardsmen from amongst the half-starved population of Spitalsfield as the Educational Board to create an intelligent agricultural population upon the half-starved system of education to be doled out to them. Wlien liali-weekly schools are established, how is it possible for teachers to open evening schools in accordance with the 36th clause of the Act ?—I am, &e., H.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2906, 22 May 1873, Page 1 (Supplement)
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