MR HOGBEN'S VISIT TO EUROPE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8945, 20 December 1907, Page 6

MR HOGBEN'S VISIT TO EUROPE.

WHAT HE LEARNT ON HIS TOUR

AMERICAN MODELS PREFER-

ABLE TO GERMAN

Mr Geo. Hogbeu, luspector-Geueral of Schools, who has been ou au official visit to Europe, Canada and America, has returned to New Zealaud. Iv the course of au interview with a Post reporter, Mr Hogbeu said he had been absent ten mouths, and during the whole period, excepting wheu on the water, he had devoted himself to the study of British aud foreign educatiou at first baud. He had visited Germauy, Italy, Switzerland, France, aud Holland, also the United States aud Canada. " The educational systems are so exceedingly varied," he said, "that it is most difficult to say in which country it is the best. One has oue excellent thing, and another lias something different, but also exceedingly good. There is

hardly anything that you can name that you cauuot rind as good somewhere else. There is more uuit'ormity iv Germany, I fouud, thau iv the United Kingdom, where much variety obtaius; but the uniformity of Germau educatiou is the result of years of experience iv shaping the educational policy as the result of au agreement upon au ideal." Mr Hogbeu did not think it would be wise to entirely copy Germauy, because while the system was very good indeed for tiie German people, it was not necessarily adapted to the genius of the Euglish people. Iv America the genius "was Euglish, and New Zealaud could learn more from America than from Germany, much as Germauy had to teach.