“The highest aim of education is variety,” said Mr It. M. Lang, president of the Secondary Schools’ Assistants’ Association, at the annual meeting yesterday. “I need hardly say that we are very far indeed from having reached this aim, pr even from realising it. Indeed, one of the commonest and also one of the most justifiable complaints againßt our system of education is that it fails julst here; that wo turn put classes of one pat tern, and as long as we have classes of 80 or 90 in our primary schools, such animadversions must ’ continue. Not only under such circumstances must the teacher fail to give the individual teaching necessary, but his discipline must almost of necessitv—under present conditions of the syllabub at least—be of the rough-and-ready character, and can take little cognisance of the individual.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10898, 12 May 1921, Page 4
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