JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
OPKNKD AT KOWITAI, A “RED LETTER DAY,” (Pun United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 2, The Kowhai Junior High School was opened by the lion. C. J. Parr to-day. The Minister characterised the occasion as a “red letter” flay in (he history of education in New Zealand. There had been talk of the new system injuring primary and secondary education, hid such criticism was offer 'd only hy Ihe ill-informed. A large percentage of children were at present going through courses quite iinsuited In their special needs, whereas in_t.be junior high schools they would he tried out by different courses and given a course of inftruction to which they were best, adapted. Bright children wouldn’t he forced to go slow to keep nice with dull ones, and Inter wouldn't be left, behind as at present, for it would be demonstrated they weren't dull at all, only different. ‘‘Let us try out the new idea and experiment. not slavishly copying other countries, by evolving a system of education that will peculiarly he adapted to the needs of children of your own country."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 7
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