ABILITY OF FIJIANS
STANDARD OF EDUCATION On liia way to undertake research work in educational psychology at Stanford University, California, Mr. C. W. Mann, lecturer in psychology at the Teachers' College, Sydney, is n through passenger by the Anratigi, which arrived from Sydney yesterday. Mr. Mann will later make a lecture tour in the East.
Research in Fiji into the comparative mental and scholastic abilities of the Indian and Fijian races was recently carried out by Mr. Mann under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation. He came to iho conclusion that there was little difference in the native abilities of the two races and that the Fijian was just as able to acquire education as the Indian, a fact not generally recognised. All the Fijian needed was the opportunity and this was now beinn provided, both by the Government ami the missions. There was a high standard of literacy among the natives and the majority of adult Fijiaus could read anil write their own language.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 14
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