The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913. WOMEN TEACHERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913. WOMEN TEACHERS.

I 1 1:0,11 Eio annual report of the l)e----partmeut ol Education, amongst oilier matters, some of which have already heeii referred to, wo gather that there i,, l “ -I *sl women to every lnuidred ! males among the adult primary school Iteachers, of .New Zealand. In .Scotland the proportion is 21b women to every hundred men, and in England the women teachers outnumber the men hy an even greater percentage. I 1 1ii America the proportion is about llour women to every one male tea|cher. The report points out that there is a tendency nearly ail over tin' world for women to re-1 . place men in scolastaic positions | formerly occupied by the latter alone, ! ; hut the scarcity of male teachers is j 1 noe nearly so marked in Xew Zealand as in most other countries. It docs , not necessarily follow that the ten-, dencv (in moderation at all events)-;

is bad. Half the children in our public schools are under the age of ton, and women teachers are presumably the most suitable for them; nearly half the remainder are girls over ten, and it is generally conceded that they should be taught by women. So far as class-teaching is concerned there would be nothing to tear, therefore, if the proportion of women teachers to men teachers were three to one. So doubt the difficulty in directing certain mixed schools renders it desirable that the proportion of men should be greater than this: in New Zealand it is more than twice as great.