EDUCATION IN TASMANIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15233, 21 February 1913, Page 8

EDUCATION IN TASMANIA.

I' THE HIGH SCHOOL' SYSTEM.. [raoir otra own correspondent.] . .'•;- Sydney, February 15. - Tub Tasmanian Parliament, voted " the-~ necessary ( money ! last session ; for ) the extension of the* education system by the : establishment of high schools, sued the l first two have just been opened in Hobart ■ .and/Lauiiceston, and'others are to be set up" in the other centre's. It is riot ibr.prising to hear that the scheme has not : |r. been well received •by proprietors of second- - '■_• 4-i\ ary schools, and other. pjople ' considered ; that'it was going ; further than -was neces- ■' ■ s'ary,,a large? number'taking the. view thai- ?.•' : the ■obligations of = the State, ... ended-: with, - . the giving of a free primary' education; \ However, the* Government held to its view, that if primary 'education should be sup-, plied free of charge.", there -.was no logical v : reason why it,should stop there, and so > : , .these high.schools have been opened, The? : will, it is hoped, form a •connecting link: > " between the /.primary schools ■ and the, uni- ;.:'•; varsity.;, As in other parte of Australia. / as well as New Zealand, there is a Sorcitv of teachers in Tasmania, .arid-additional ~ :■' training facilities ■■-. are being provided. .'-,. '■',-",