LESSONS BY POST

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12095, 24 March 1925, Page 6

LESSONS BY POST

EPIDEMIC NECESSITY. / “A POOR SUBSTITUTE.*’ Reference to the dislocation in the work of the college owing to the infantile paralysis restrictions was made in his report to the Technical College Board last night by the director, Mr J. H. Howell, who stated: “When we were informed by the department on March 3rd that the school must not open before March 16th, stops were at once taken to arrange correspondence courses for all classes in the High School. Schemes of study were mapped out and sets of exercises drawn up in each subject where this could be profitably done; and copies bent to each new pupil that had enrolled and to all former pupils who, tbs staff had reason to believe, were returning to school. The schemes are sent out fortnightly, but the exercises are to be returned weekly, and these will be corrected and posted back as soon aa possible. “Owing to the large number of d-isies and the variety of schemes the carrying out of this system of correspondence lias demanded a good deal of effort and organisation, hut with a little experience it should work smoothly and well, though, of course, it is a very poor substitute for personal teaching.”