“TOO ACADEMIC”
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM CONDEMNED MINISTER OUTSPOKEN Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In an address today to the conference of the Secondary Schools’ Association the Minister of Education, the Hon. H. Atmore, unhesitatingly declared that the present system of education was too academic, and that it was not sufficiently in tune with life as a boy or girl would have to meet it. The present system, said the Minister, was no reflection on the teachers. Governments had to take the full responsibility for educational policy, and he would take the full responsibility for his policy when he declared it. A system would have to be devised to meet the need of New Zealand. Mr. Atmore reaffirmed his previous attitude, that agriculture would have more attention in the schools. The importance of getting the besttrained teachers possible could not be emphasised too thoroughly, he said, when speaking of training colleges. Consolidation in country districts was also mentioned by the Minister as part of his policy, as also was the reduction of the size of classes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 664, 16 May 1929, Page 16
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