A HEADMASTER TO PARENTS
Three "Dont's" for parents were submitted by Dr T. K. Derry, headmaster of Mill Hill School, England, in a recent address. " Don't visit your' boy at school too frequently," he said. "It is rather like taking up a plant by the roots after a few weeks to see how it is getting on. Don't ignore the school reports. They could be made of very much more value than they are if the parents were prepared to study them conscientiously, evenif they did cast a shadow over the holidays. Don't take .your boy away from school any sooner than is absolutely necessary. Education is an expensive business, but it is a business to which pre-eminently the' law of increasing returns applies. ' You are getting more value out of the edu-: cation of your son as the years go by, and it is usually the case that the final year at school —for which it is sometimes difficult to find a financial basisis going, in the long run. to matter most."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23593, 1 September 1938, Page 19
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