THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!

Colonist, Volume XLVI, Issue 10917, 7 January 1904, Page 2

THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!

The world has need of men of ideas, and ( is ready to encourage such men, for the ( exclusive right to a good idea is readily f granted. I! you have any notion that is € worth while, that has money in it, seaure a a monopoly for it by talcing out a patent, but do the thing right. The proper course for the person with a good idea is to seek the *j advice and assistance of Baldwin & Bayward, Patent Agents and Consulting Engi . neers, National Chambers, Wellington Write for the booklet, "Patents," or '• Hints to Inventors," to be had tori the &Bking f . o^ •/•■. ' . \.,- ; : " : -.,..' '-. •-■ Q

hould be. given to those wno naa Irawn up the Syllabus. MrF. G. Gibbs, M.A., seconded he motion, and he dealt with the inea of argument taken up by those vhoj were opposed to the Syllabus. 3e said their opposition was due to wo causes, one was conservatism, vhich he considered was common to eachers as a class. The second was gnorance of the Syllabus itself. He sontended it Was a well up-to-date Syllabus, and followed the lead of ihe greatest educationists of the day. . Messrs J. G. L. Scott, Cousins, Watson, Winter, McMorran, Grundy ind Eudey spoke in fa.vor.of the notioqj while, Messrs Barnett atid VlclSillop opposed it. An amendment moved by Mr W. H. Clark to add certain qualifying t° th.9 resolution was put, but was rejected. . . , The motion was carried on the /oices. . .. . : , ■ * Mr Johnson moved clause two of^ the report, which was seconded by Mr Aitken— "That the Institute is 3f opinion that the Syllabus will prove burdensome . to teachers,, or otherwise, according to the interpretation by Inspectors, arid according to the methods of examination, and it respectfully recommends that a very definite code be drawn up for the guidance of Inspectors and ex* aminers. " After a short discussion, the clause was carried by an overwhelming majority. . ' "• The third clause, which strongly objected to any dictation being given to the teachers as to the method of instruction, was carried almost unanimously. The fourth clause was under consideration, when the Institute adjoured at ten o'clock until half -past nine this morning.