PROGRESS Tn EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19204, 21 June 1924, Page 10

PROGRESS Tn EDUCATION.

.MINISTER EXPRESSES SATTSFACv TTON. TEACHERS MORE INTELLIGENT. (Peb United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Juno 20. Satisfaction with the progress made in the dominion in recent years in matters educational was expressed by tiio Hon. G. J. Pair in addressing the Council of Education to-day. tie congratulated members on their decision to keep the council alive, tie thought that educational bodies gave too much time to matters of administrat.ve importance and administrative policy, d < oii.siilori'd Unit tae time would bo better spent in looking into what was going on inside the schools. He thought that education has made considerable advance in New Zealand, and he was sure that the teachers were more intelligent now than previously. The products of the school were more intelligent and resourceful. There wa-si almost a passion for post primary or secondary education. I'he average person was no longer satisfied with a Sixth Standard certificate. Dealing with historv in the schools, ho said that he might ask the council to set up a commission to go thoroughly into tbo question. Unfortunately the work of the secondary schools had not the freedom which characterised the primary school*. Ho thought mere importance should be given to the leaving cortifi-atc in order to give it a higher commercial value. He stressed the need for remedying the evil of large classes in primary schools.