SCHOOL LIFE
CURRICULUM TOO RIGID _ ({Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this’ day. “ There is .no -harm to a boy in a ‘ penny dreadful’ of the 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 tho Auckland Educational Association, Mr. F. A. Garry, headmaster of Mount Roskill school, gave an address on “ Curriculum in Relation to School Life,” and pointed out some of tiie mistakes he believed were being made. In tiie past, he said, the curriculum had been infinitely too rigid, and the pupils had been turned out on a pattern, the whole system being dominated by examinations.' Other failings had been that the making of “ little men ” and “ little women ” bad been sought.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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133SCHOOL LIFE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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