EDUCATION REPORT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18628, 25 July 1930, Page 3

EDUCATION REPORT

NOT POPULAR WITH AUCKLAND BOARDS. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND. July 25. The Auckland Grammar School Board, after considering the Education Committee’s Report, passed the following resolution:—"That the efficiency the great secondary schools of Auckland will inevitably be gravely impaired by the proposed charges; the essence of the system would be a levelling down and complete centralisation of authority in Wellington.” The Board considered r duality of opportunity for all classes, resulting in the pre-eminence of the most intellectual pupils, regardless of class, to be the essence of democracy, and that results of the Auckland Grammar Schools are the best tribute to the existing control system. The Auckland Education Board considered the report at a special meeting this morning, and passed the following resolution: “That the report of the Education Committee is not in the best interests of New Zealand, and would deny to the people ti e light of electing those whom they wished to govern education.” Mr A. Burns, chairman, said that if he did not know that the Atmore report had been written bj two members ,of the Education Department staff, he would have thought it had been written Dv Mark Twain, when it referred to the “dignified and important place Boards would occupy in the new system.”