PUBLIC OPINION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10416, 21 March 1912, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION.

FROM YESTERDAY'S NEWSPA PIOUS. (Bv Telegraph.) TEACH ERS' C EKTIFICATES. _We think the Government has acted wisely in retaining tho present grades oi certificates. Ijio existing classification offers every inducement for tho young teacher to qualify himself for the higher certificates, and thus increase his chances of promotion, and again, presuming that the inspectors' marks for efficiency in teaching are given fairly, skill in teaching will soon be recognised in the bestowal of the figure indicating the division within the class.-- Dunedin "Star. 1 ' TEACHERS' REGULATTOXS. Although tho new regulations may approach the ideal for a very long time, in so far as they are directed to providing the dominion with trained and certificate;! teachers, they will, like the colonial scale of staffing, exist only on paper. From an educational point of view it. would be much better to be less ambitious and to make the service more attractive. The use of aii ideal scheme is largely discounted if it is doomed to exist only, or even mainly, as a figment of the imagination. - " Ota-go Daily Times." THE POLITICAL PROSPECT. The outlook for the party is dark and cheerless. Tho leader that was hoped for has not turned up. Every possible successor to Sir Joseph Ward, has been carefully weighed and considered, and for one reason or other has been found wanting. Is it surprising if many of those who we.ro expressing elation three weeks ago are now doubting whether the game is really worth the candle, whether a victory won by the odious expedient of pledge-breaking and the easting vote of tho Speaker was really worth winning, whether the party would not hove been wiser to accept defeat with dignity, to retire with its laurels untarnished and to leave to .the other side the baffling, depressing and demoralising task of making bricks without straw, of carrying oil the work of the Houso without a working majority?—" Evening Post."