ELEMENTARY v. SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11188, 10 August 1898, Page 3

ELEMENTARY v. SECONDARY EDUCATION.

f '• •■..'■ ' .T'^'i-HE'-EDITOH. : ■■' ■;.. j'■ Sir,—The enclosed cutting from an ■ Eng- : lish' educational paper is worthy qf.npte. The propositions 'Set out emphasise facts which, ex-. actlr correlate with facts existing amongst us, which do not seem to have impressed themselves on some .of.ou^ authorities on thesubjectl Mr Adams,, referred to. as the 'reader of the first paper; is the principal of one of the two training colleges in Aberdeen, and quite recently occupied the. honourable, position of president■:of the Educational Institute of Scotland.—l am, etc.. ■ > . .'. ■■■> .;..-. ~ .... ..W./D.. .Mi1ne,,.,,. V- SECONDARY EDUCA- . ..■"'"■.: tion. ;. f ;■,.;■ - : "■■ ;■ A joint meeting of. the Aberdeen branches of ] ~ the . Secondary Teachers' Association and the \ Educational Institute of -Scotland was held ■ lately (April, 1898) in the .Grammar,. School, at ! which' the relation of primary to ; secondary ■; teaching'was the'subject of consideration. ••' Mr.., Adams read a paper on "The Point.of Diver- -j gence Between Primary and Secondary "Work," ■-| concluding with the following propositions: —1. ] Those1 going to the University. should go ia a j secondary school not later than after passing i Standard VI, and, if possible,, on entry ta Standard V. -2. Those having only: two years, after ■ Standard VI should not go to a secondary school at all, but should remain in their'priiri- ' ary school, gettingan ex-Standard course.that will be complete as far as it goes, or go for, the finil't'wo years to an ex-Standard.. school., 3.. ( ; Elementary schools in town should.'not attempt^ ;; seconclary.*work. leading up ..tq.thej.Xrniyirsity. ;. Mi^Morland Simpson,- rec,toc ottHe. GraroßiM ..] > SchooJ, .followed.with a.'p s aper., on "Wh*?tV"the j [ Secondary School, Sets' 'from" the Primary,'''!"i:j i which jjiei'.suggejjfefl. that if wduld be^.ftft im-1---i niense. gain, all round if means ccnild be'devised'j whereby, at'a certain stage, bona-fide. candi-. ! dates for secondary edxication should be re--quired,toleave the purely elementary, school for^ one. specially organised for the purpose. ,'■