ECONOMICS IN EDUCATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 14

ECONOMICS IN EDUCATION

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In your leading article on this subject you characterise the criticism of the High Schools Board and the Education Board as purely of a destructive character. That is not, I submit, true of either board, but I am concerned with the High Schools Board. That board gave immediate' consideration only to the proposal to centralise control. It realised that there must be reduction in expenditure and that aspect was referred to a committee for report to a special meetpoint to be stressed, in my opinion, is that the reduction in expenditure necessitated by the present circumstances of the Dominion may, in part at least, be restored when prosperity returns, as it surely will. But once control is centralised all local control is gone for ever. There is nothing personal in our criticism. I have the greatest respect for the officials of the Education Department, as I know they have for the High Schools Board. The difference lies in the point of view.— l am, etc., J. C. Stephens. March 18.