Frse" " Education

NZ Truth, Issue 850, 4 March 1922, Page 1

Frse" " Education

I r o are glad, to notice that various )r papers, also, several workers' orLsations, are beginning to -wake up last to the expensive "extras" ied on to our "free" educational .em m the shape of . expensive ; books, which have a. fatal habit >eing changed with mystifyingjrency by the* educational powers : be. "Truth)* exposed the little : a long time ago, but this time it those responsible .for the , system > have roused the parents from r. apathy. They have apparently ng the changes" once too often. y somebody's Algebra should be a able text book one year and then nire to be ohanged for somebody 's on the same subject the year af- . is, we repeat, ; a mystery. ,It is aiessly expensive from the parents' it of view, must be a nuisance so as the teacher is ( concerned— but, ' nice and profltatile for the bookmen er 1 In fact, where a ' bookseller lias a monopoly; of the school text tiook trade m his locality, : the system of quick changes m text books/must tvarm his heart (and pocket) quite a ot. This matter certainly should be; nquired into further, and the abuse ended forthwith. ~~ * ' i ....--* ■