BIAS IN EDUCATION
TECHNICAL V. AGRICULTURAL CRITICISM OF MINISTER rrcss Association TYELLIXGTON, "Wednesday. The desirability of siring secondary education more of an agricultural bias as advocated by the Hon. H. Atmore. Minister of Education, was criticised by Mr. G. W. Morice in his presidential address to the Secondary School Assistants" Association. Experience had shown, he said, that for reasons more or less obvious, there was little demand for agricultural courses and a start must be made in some other way than by giving a smattering of agriculture in existing schools. Speaking of the unsympathetic attitude toward the farming community he said some of the farmers seemed to believe that because 90 per cent, of New Zealand's exports consisted of farm products, the farmers themselves did over 90 per cent, of the production in New Zealand. The schools were probably largely to blame in not producing a more intelligent appreciation of the process of production.
The Minister had said that our educational system was out of touch with the needs of the community—iu this he was undoubtedly right, but it was surely as important to give it a technical bias as an agricultural one.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 7
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193BIAS IN EDUCATION Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 7
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