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DESIRE TO LEAVE SCHOOL HEADMASTER’S ADVICE LONDON, October 24. _ Taking os his cue the headmistress s lament that modern girls desire' to leave school after a. trainingi that was so short as to be almost worthless, -Mr. Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow School, at a prize distribution in London, suggested that a girl should remain at school until she' knew something of her own country’s geography, history, religion, literature and government, also the history ol modern Europe, and at least one foreign language. _ As the modern world is to-day,” he said, “it is better to leave school mature.” The headmistress had also expressed the opinion that the girls’ impatience was due to having spent their most informative years amid an atmosphere ol financial anxiety in their homes. Mr. Norwood denied thiit lie Had ever advocated the abolition of examinations. “My offence is ' that I suggested that examinations are not'quite as good as they seem, because too extravagant a value, is attached to them.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 10
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