HOW CHILD LEARN TO WRITE
A HEADMASTER EXPLAINS.
[by tkl aph.—own CORRESPONDENT.]
Drsrai.v, ' Wednesday. Business men who complain thai boys leaving school and entering offices in the ciiv cannot write will be interested to hear what the headmaster of one of the largest schools in Dunedin stated to-day. He said. "Is it true that I only give an hour a week to writing in the fifth and sixth standards? Why, I don't even give that. . There is no formal instruction in writing at all. It has to be given incidentally daring the teaching 'of other subjects were pens or- pencils have to be used. After all writing is only useful as an expression of thought, and if it is lezible that is all that is wanted. There is no time to teach caligraphy set off with ruled lines in coloured inks." The opinion indicated how fast the world is moving. New subjects come in nearly every year, and now writing has bad to declare its innings closed. i■• ,f u-'tf
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13114, 1 March 1906, Page 6
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