NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS.

gjr.—ln his admirable address on New. . Zealand schools there was one point which Mr. Tibia seemed to have missed. lie de- , plored very rightly the advent of the JEnglish teaching orders, but he said nothing about tho use of books written by these . same teachers. At present many iS&w Z>ea.\ land schools are using books written by masters at Clifton, which Mr. Tioba describes as "only a second-rate school* as well as books written by masters at other English schools. I have heard that a book on Latin Erose, partly written by ono ot . the masters at Clifton, was at one urn© used at the Auckland Grammar School. tt it not time that we discontinued this habit, and used only books written bv local m £ n ' The pernicious influence of the English tc.tcher may be spread by the use of books ■written by him as well as by importing him to teach in our schools. II wo are to lceeo our schools entirely free from this taint we ought to see that all books, _ written by any but New Zealanders aro rigidly excluded from our midst. » Surely our otto men could write much better books than those written by English teachers. Claudius-