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MINISTER AND TEACHERS. Describing recent remarks by the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. Masters, on the question of the raising of the school age as “astonishing and unwarranted,” an editorial article in the June issue of National Education charges the Minister with misrepresentation which "could scarcely go further.” The remarks to which exception is taken were: “Now, if only these people (the teachers) would come out and be straight and honest, and say, ‘This iffects the grading of our schools as well is our salaries,’ we would know where ve stood.” It is claimed that the Miniser has cast a slur upon the profession, md that it was his evident desire to divert attention from the major issue—that is, whether the five-year-olds were benefiting or suffering by reason of their exclusion.
The case for the New Zealand Educational Institute in rebuttal of the Minister’s contention is explained at length in the article on lines already traversed by statements by its secretary, Mr. G. R. Ashbridge, and by the Auckland Headmasters'
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 5
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