TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 8

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

TENDENCY TO NEGLECT IT COMMENT BY DIRECTOR [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, May 8. Speaking at the conference of the Technical School Teachers’ Association, Mr. Lambourne, Director of Education, said he believed that technical education in its widest sense would play a far more important part in the education of New Zealand’s young people than it did now. Perhaps it was too soon for him to express an opinion on the matter, but in the course of his administrative duties he had sometimes thought that principals and boards were more concerned with the high than with the technical part of their designation. It seemed sometimes to be forgotten that the technical side was the senior part of the school, and that the day school was preparatory to the evening classes. Unless that was realised and acted upon, there would appear little justification for tho establishment of technical schools, because with some further modification i> curricula, secondary schools could provide for day pupils. That impression might be unwarranted, but it was one that he had