WHAT RESULTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12754, 25 September 1919, Page 8

WHAT RESULTS.

EDUCATION AND THE CHILD [Per Press Association.] ELLINGTON, September 25. At the Dominion Conference of Education Boards to-day the question of unity of control of the various branches of education by one administrative boay, to be set up in each district, was brought up by Mr G. T. London (Wellington), who moved—“ That, in view of the important part education musj, necessarily take in post-war reconstrucrestoration, it is essential that the curricula of the various educational units of the Dominion—university, secondary, technical and primary—should be co-ordinated and placed under one control.” The motion was carried unanimously. n’ri Auckland delegate moved—- ” That • the conference requests the Council of Education to consider whether the result of our education system is in a satisfactory degree, a thoughtful, industrious and reverent child, and if not to suggest, the remedy." Mr Pnrdie (Auckland) said the qnea. tion supremo importance to the people of New Zealand. He suggested n ( conference between the Director and Assistant Director of Education and inspectors and beads of the various educational institutions, but the general opinion of the conference was that the ™, a *Ae r one into which the Council of Education should inquire.