EXAMINATION FETISH
NEW ZEALANDER’S ADDRESS
EDUCATION CONFERENCE (United Service) VANCOUVER. Saturday. That there is a definite revolution in thought and in the methods of pedagogic instruction throughout the Empire has been one of the outstanding features, perhaps the keynote, of the conference of the National Council of Education in the past week. Speakers have dealt with the necessity of a greater degree of eclectic humanism in the training of the young. This was emphasised to-day in an address given by Mr. Frank Milner, of New Zealand. The speaker said no secondary school would be successful that did not endeavour to create interest apart from the set subjects in the curriculum. He instanced the necessity for a more sympathetic attitude toward the adolescent scholar, of stimulating his mind with helpful and inspiring forces and associations. Mr. Milner strongly advocated school libraries and laid stress upon the importance of humanism rather than the retention of the examination fetish as a means of establishing the competency of the pupil.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 9
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