PENNY DREADFULS.
NOT AN UNMIXED EVIL. AUCKLAND, July 24. “ There is no harm to a boy in a penny dreadful of a good healthy type. We are too anxious sometimes to put classics into the hands of children, and then we are disappointed when they do not enjoy them.” Before the Auckland Educational Association Mr W A. Garry, headmaster of the; Mount Roskill School’ gave an address on the curriculum in relation, to school life and pointed ou.t some of the mistakes which he believed were being made. Fn the past, he said, the curriculum liad been infinitely too rigid and pupils had been turned out on pattern, the whole system being dominated by examination. Another failing had been that the making of little men and little women had been sought.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 9
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