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g; r —We are to!i our railways are not paving. Allow me to suggest one item in "which a saving might be made, namely in the carriage of scholars from country schools to township and city centres. I would restrict this great privilege to the fit and the deserving. From my own observation of the crass ignorance openly displaced by some pupils in their interlocution during the tedium of railway journeys extending to even three hours a 'dav (to and fro), I have come to the conclusion that many of these pup:ls > could spend their t : me more profitably in the - primary schools of their district. My opinion is supported bv headmasters with whom I have conversed. Not only so, but the dual strain is injurious ahke to health and wisdom. Aga'n, the too great famuiaritv with populous centres tends to unfit the voun* for the country life so essential to the nation's prosperity. Parents are prone to boast of their children attendin? secondary schools, but unless these children have received a thorough grounding in the infant and primary schools, thev are unfit to take advantage of advanced studies. Argus.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18120, 19 June 1922, Page 10
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