Better Behaved.
'J'HE opinion that children now are more intelligent and better behaved than those of 30 years ago was expressed by Mr E. Wilson, headmaster of the Hamilton High School, in an address at a meeting of the Hamilton Rotary Club. Twenty-eight per cent of the boys who left high school took up farming, and 54 per cent of the girls entered the home, said Mr Wilson. It was the object of the schools to develop the three-fold aim of physical, intellectual and moral training of the young. It was not the primary function of secondary schools to teach specialised trades and professions, but rather to encourage the intellectual faculties of thought and observation. The secondary schools, Mr Wilson concluded, were doing a great work in turning out boys and girls with comparatively welltrained minds and fairly well-developed characters.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 6
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