LEADING EDUCATIONIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 10

LEADING EDUCATIONIST

INVITATION .TO DOMINION.

JUNIOR HIGH § SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Dr, John Adams, professor of education at the : University of London, the leading British educationist of the present day, is -to be asked; to visit New: : Zealand. I Professor Adams is shortly proceeding to California under engagement to the State University and the high schools to discuss the I development of the junior high school system. He is then; to go to South Africa and 2to ■ Australia. ■; S The director .;; of education, '\L at the instance of ; the Minister for •■; Education, "•''; has cabled to v Professor Adams asking him to come to 'New Zealand ":i for the -I purpose lof '4 delivering v ad-. dresses in ; the four .;, chief centres. Professor Adams was ; president of the ; Educational r Institute of ;!." Scotland in 1897, and ■ in 1902 1 visited Canada :on • the Educational r Commission. He has been president '.--: of ■« :• the ; London ; : Day Swing College since 1902. He has issued a number of valuable publications, the latest" of which was "Modern Developments in Educational Practice." ' The: Minister for ; Education, the Hon. C. J. ', Parr, stated vesterday : that he was > keen ' to get the views ;of such :an eminent authority ! on the junior high school system recently | introduced . here.