PERSUASION?
PRINCIPLE OF EDUCATION PUPIL AND TEACHER MUST UNITE "INFLUENCE THE WILL ——’« Persuasion rather than compulsion is the guiding principle of education which uhe director of the Technical College (Mr J. H. Howell) advocates in his annual report. A short comment on the class which had been established by the apprenticeship committee and conducted under its guidance :
“We heartily welcome,” he said, “all the help that employers and employees can give, for it is only by active co-operation between them and the college that the latter can render fullest service to the community; but it is necessary that we should be in very close touch with one another, and I hope that arrangements will be made in future for a representative of the college to meet with apprenticeship committees whenever matters relating to education are to be discussed. INFLUENCE THE WILL “One educational principle needs especially to he borne in mind. The has placed in the hands of the committees compulsory powers, and behind them they have the magistrate to enforce their decisions; hut in education compulsion is of very little use, and the older the pupil the more useless it hecomes. ‘You may take a
horse to water, hut you cannqt make him drink. 1 Persuasion not Compulsion is the means to adopt; you must influence the will, not thwart it; the student mast be a willing co-worker with the teacher. This can he done, and in some cases can only be done by bringing the powerful motive of self-interest into play; make it plain to the student that it pays him:to work with his teacher; that without it he cannot qualify as a journeyman, or even win the annual increments to the apprenticeship wage, and you will find that all but the abnormal will respond; while there wilt,be compelled to seek their means of livelihood elsewhere than in a skilled trade. It is to be hoped .that apprenticeship committees will exhaust every means of persuasion before they adopt any measure of compulsion.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12323, 18 December 1925, Page 7
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