EDUCATION EXPERIMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18380, 21 April 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)

EDUCATION EXPERIMENTS.

Experiments in education are having a great vogue just now all over the world in France, Italy, and America. In this connection a very interesting experimental garden school has ; been ;' established at Great Missenden, England. : "Our great aim is to get the fullest possible- development of every child along the lines ; of least, resistance, stimulating whatever powers lie latent, by means of music, art, song, dance, drama, rythmic exercises, Swedish drill, games, handicrafts, and service to others," explained Mrs. Nicholls, the headmistress, whose own young daughter is a r pupil in the school. "'.'We try to draw out the capacity of each child to the full in every possible direction. The imaginative faculty, which we feel to be so vitally important, is encouraged in every branch of study. ' "The intellectual type of child gradually developed on these lines will, we believe, need very little special coaching to enable him or her to pass the London matriculation examination at. about 17. Other types are allowed to develop on other lines, and thence pass on into the outside world, ready to take up a career in whichever direction their chief talents lie. - .'. . .-.,.'.':■;'

"The formation "of character—self-reli-ance, self-control, and initiative— encouraged in every way. and our boys and girls should make ' good citizens," she added.- ■■": -~^l^;*S?' '