MATRICULATION ENGLISH.
AN UNINTERESTING COURSE. LITTLE SCOPE FOR INDIVIDUALITY. (Fbom Odb Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, December 18. In his report on the year’s work at King’s College, Mr J. V. Collins (acting headmaster), at the prize distribution ceremony to-day had something to say about the matriculation’ English paper. English at King’s College was well up to the standard, he said. In some cases the essay writing was weak, but the literary side, especially in the Sixth Form, had been productive of good results. The somewhat dull matriculation course prevented forms from preparing for that examination and from studying literature as they should. In the usual matriculation English paper there was hardly one literary question, and hence the really interesting and valuable parts of the subject could receive only slight attention. It would be well if the English course for matriculation were revolutionised, for at present, beyond the essay, there was nothing in it that was likely to call for a boy’s individuality and initiative.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19048, 19 December 1923, Page 7
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