AIMS IN EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 5

AIMS IN EDUCATION.

MINISTER ON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS STATEMENT AFTER EASTER INVERCARGILL, March 19. Addrssing the Southland Education 1 Board to-day, the Minister of Education: (the Hon,. H. Atmore) dealt at length with the necessity of finding an alternative to the present unduly academic trend of post-primary education and continued: "I have been besieged 1 by applications for an alteration in the. present system by educational bodies, particularly in the North Island and it! is significant that these bodies have already requested that should the junior high school proposal be adopted such' iretitutions be established in their particular districts. In Southland, however, although no definite statement' has been issued, it appears that there are critics who are putting up straw men for the sake of knocking them down again. It is obvious that some alteration in the present s/stem must bp made, but the question is, of course, what form, that the alteration should take,” adding that he had agreed to 1 old over a definite statement till after Easter, the Minister said: "Our aim is to develop each child along the lines of its own individuality, not to force it into a- race for which nature did not intend.it. There must be no uniformity enforced. The individuality of each child must be recognised and' developed.—(P.A.)