TREND OF EDUCATION.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS PRO POSALS.
WELLINGTON, May 25. “We are going somewhere, but only God knows where,” said Mr J. A. Colquhoun. M.Sc., in his presidential ad; dress to the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association today, in a survey of the trend of education in New Zealand. It had been amply demonstrated, he said, that children should begin their post-primary education at an earner age, and that the secondary school curricula should bo widened; but he urged that both could be made gradually, without a disruptive change, and by retaining almost the present organisation, and with little extra cost.
Arguing that no idea, especially a preconceived one, should be accepted without ample evidence, he traversed a number of statements made in regard to the junior high schools proposals, and declared that they were unsupported by convincing evidence. He urged that a thorough understanding of what was proposed should precede acceptance.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 9
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