MODERN EDUCATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16558, 18 October 1921, Page 8

MODERN EDUCATION.

REPORT OX AMERICAN' WORK. i [From Ot k ConnisroNDßUT.) WELLINGTON, October 17. j Tho Minister of Education will shortly receive an official report on certain phases of higher education in America which Mr F. V. . .Milner, rector of the Waitaki High School, was directed to investigate on behalf of the Education Department. Ihe Hon C. -J. Pari-, when questioned by a representative of the “ Star” regarding Mr Milner’s mission, stated that he had had an opportunity of discussing some of his general experiences, and expected a very valuable report on the American system of junior high schools, which cor-ic-pond in some degree with crjr technicsl high schools and secondary schools. Mr Milner had formed an impression of higher education in tho 9tate of California, which was believed to he the most progressive of the American States in educational reform, that they had regenerated or, he might almoat say, revolutionised the old English curriculum of instruction, and were on more practical vocational lines, dispensing very largely, as compared with Xsw Zealand, with cultural subjects, «uch as the dead languages which, remarked the Minister form such n prominent part even vet of our high