EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10753, 28 April 1911, Page 4

EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Presb Association.) Received April 128, at 10.5 a.m. \ London, April 27. 1 At the Education- Conference Mr Jackman, ex-President of the National Union of Teachers, advocated teaching no arithmetic to children of nine and ten soars. He said problems which took'months to ieach to children of that age could he tautrht in three weeks to'children of eleven and iwelve, and the time thus sa\ed could he devoted to reading. Mr Andrews said Mr Jackman's system was heing used in West Australia, and he was anxious to know why the system was not generally adopted in England. Mr Strong, Rector of Montrose Academv, said he was doubtful of the desirability of co-education in secondary schools. In. Scotland girls matured more rapidly, overweighting the boys by twelve to fifteen. • Mr Board said New South Wales adopted many features of the Scotch i system, but did not intend to make high schools co-educational.