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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13350, 7 April 1914, Page 8

"I wondered how they did it," said Mr W. R. Bayley, headmaster of the Geclong College, when addressing the Secondary Teachers' Association (the Age reports). He referred to his recent travels, when, in >an American school, ho saw 3400 boys, "each an independent unit as to time-table." "The child," he continude, "is a great authority in America — he governs the railway car and the hotel, and seems to rule in tho class-room. 'In America they like you to walk through a classroom, and everybody talks, and each lesson is made as much as possible a talking lesson. I often wondered whether the children there learnt anything. A teacher would start lessons by talking to and witli the children, conducting the class almost on the lines of a debating society. It helped me to understand why the Americans are always talking, and have an authoritative opinion on every subject. But the most quiet people I found in America were those who were doing the biggest work. ' Mr Bayley concluded a comprehensive exposition of world educational methods with the dictum that "one bf the greatest forces for a well-educated, community is variety of type of instruction."