EDUCTAIONAL INSTITUTE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON. May 16. The. fortieth annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute was opened by tho Mayor yesterday afternoon. The president Mr W. D. Low, off Perm craton North, ocoupicd the chair. The Mayor welcomed the delegates to Wellington and expressed the hope that they would enjoy their visit and have a successful conference. Mr Low, in tho course of his preeidential address, devoted a good deal of time to stressing the importance of character building in the school. “I feel sure,” said Mr Low. “that it is only through a better understanding of the individual pupil of Ins mental bias and powers that it is possible to give to him an opportunity of bringing those powers into exercise which can develop his true personality, and by exercise of these he will learn he has a place to fill and work to do in his own community. He will have a better opportunity of knowing himself and will develop respect for himself and for others. Life should have for him more meaning and content.” Tho conference will he continued today.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18783, 17 May 1923, Page 4
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