THE DAILY WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1935, Page 9

THE DAILY WORK

MORNING AND EVENING TALKS. RELATIONS WITH BUSINESS MEN. The school will not be all work and no play by any means. Lectures will be confined to mornings and evenings, with afternoons left for recreation and organised tramps. School will commence at 9 o’clock, the morning being devoted into four threequarter hour periods with quarter-hour intervals between. The evening sessions will be devoted to popular lectures from 8 to 9 by the. main speakers, preceded by folk dancing between 7 and 7.45 and followed by community singing from 9 to 9.30. The afternoons will be entirely free . from study and lecture work, and will be available for individual arrangements or for organised tramps and excursions. Some of these it is hoped to make instructive without marring the freedom of the period. Suggested arrangements in view are trips to Mount Egmont, the Meeting of the Waters and Moturoa. On such journeys it is hoped to enlist the aid of authorities such as Mr. W. H. Skinner. In addition to organised recreation students have had extended to them the privileges of sports organisations and service clubs for use as their preferences indicate. There will be no division into groups as has been the practice at some previous sessions, and the result will be that all students will be able to participate in all branches of work enclosed by the scope of the school. The gathering will be non-sectarian, but a church parade, in keeping with the high ideals of the movement, will 1 arranged for Sunday. In order to keep in touch with modem movement it has been arranged to bring to the school men from the business world who will give teachers—too prone io live in a child world —a definite description of the busy work-a-day world of business.- Much interest has been taken by teachers in these addresses in the past, and this year at New Plymouth it is Loped to have speakers drawn from representative professions and commercial fields. The aid of Mr. W. H. Skinner and Mr. R. W. D. Robertson has already been enlisted in connection with this aspect of the school’* work and endeavours are being made to obtain other speakers to develop still further the scope of the movement as a means for broadening the vision. A recent popular development of that school organisation is the “forum” discussion, which will be held each day this session under the direction of Dr. Butchers. By this means all students are able to take a personal part in the transactions of the school b’y joining in deliberations upon educational problems.