SCHOLARSHIPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11576, 14 February 1901, Page 3

SCHOLARSHIPS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—l see that the question of scholarships has been again before the Teachers' Institute. Not so very long ago an attempt was made to put a stop to any teaching out of school hours. Now, as a country teacher, I speak feelingly on this subject. Half-an-hour before or after school is all the time that can be appropriated to the instruction of scholarship candidates, —notwithstanding, the remarks of the head-teachers interviewed by the City Schools Committee • —no country teacher dreams of neglecting the bulk of the children in his school. -By the town teachers' own showing, they have an especial class and teacher for candidates for the various examinations, and to attempt to take away from us the solitary half-hour a day, which is all we have, is to depriveus of the only chance we have of obtaining higher education for the brightest of the children entrusted to us. Hoping that a, "word to the .wise" will be enough, and that the country teachers will be on their guard to defeat any measure, which will practically allow the town teachers to " scoop the pool.' —I am, etc., Country Teacher.