SCHOOL COMMITTEES

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 9

SCHOOL COMMITTEES

RELATIONS WITH TEACHERS. NEVER BETTER THAN AT PRESENT. “It is very gratifying to be able to Say that there has never been a better understanding between committees and teachers, or a larger measure of agreement on vital issues than that which exists at the present time,” said Mr. G. R, Ashbridge, secretary of the New Zealand Educational Institute, in the course of an address on Wednesday to the annual conference of the Dominion Federation of School Committees Associations at Palmerston North. Mr. Ashbridge referred to the fact that the occasion was the first on .which an official representative of the institute had been present at the annual conference of the association, and stated that it was evidence of a very significant and hopeful movement in New Zealand education —a growing sense of solidarity, between, teachers and committees, and a growing conviction of the need for collaboration and united action. While it was perhaps inevitable that there should be differences in outlook between teachers and committee men and women it was nevertheless of the first importance that all should realise that they were striving towards a common end—the provision of the best possible education -for the children of the country.