INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17483, 29 May 1920, Page 4 (Supplement)

INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

The system' .of interchanging teachers between" ' Britain' and the various Dominions, as recently outlined by Dr. A. P. Newton, Professor of Imperial History at the University of London, would appear to be a scheme that -could only he productive of good. Since the war, ■ the whole education system in England has been undergoing revision, and many important reforms • are UDder discussion. .Since the wrr has brought women so much into prominence and has necessitated, or al least facilitated, their entering profession hitherto closed to them. attention has 'been specially wncentrated on the education ol girls, and on the best methods of securing for them ail-round efficiency or perfection in specialised work specially adapted to them. There are many giifs for whom a career will probably now have to be all-sufficient, so that tin- problem of the girl's education, the abolition of old-tashJoiied and inefficient methods and the substitution of modern up-to-date principles is a matter of vital importance. Hence* the sending out to New Zealand of English teachers, trained in the most advanced methods, cannot fail to be of advantage to the country.