Page 6 Advertisements Column 2

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 6

THE COST OE EDUCATION. TO THE EDITOB.. Siri —I am in entire agreement with your oorrospondant ‘‘lgnorance” respecting our education system. Most people will agree that the present time is quite inopportune to start junior high schools and such experiments, costing thousands, which might bo used, to far greater benefit to the community. Our present educational system ought surely to be good enough until the financial equilibrium is adjusted on a safe basis. As your correspondent points out, it is often the boys below the Sixth Standard who havo made their way best in the community. I would give every help to the .boy with ability who showed he wauled a superior education, but the average boy has no such ambition, and would be far happier and bettor employed at some calling after passing the Sixth Standard, than in the proposed junior high schools. With others, I must protect against the unnecessarily large expenditure on education that is being incurred at present, when the country can so ill afford it, and when there are such drastic “cuts" in the coat of living, and when the Government is so hat'd pushed to make ends meet. —I am, etc., Pabekt. July 19.