THE BACKBLOCKS CHILD.
“Instruction by correspondence is most effective in the case of older persons, who have the urge to learn, but it ought not to be discredited even in the case of young children where education economies have made it desirable,” comments the “Christchurch Star.” It has, indeed, many good features, one being the self-discipline that it imposes on the student, which is notably the case in university education, and another the fact that it brings the parent more actively into the position of tutor. It certainly deprives the backblocks child of companionship and contact with the teacher, but this may not be an unmixed evil when counterbalanced by the greater precision of correspondence lessons and the certainty of drilling in knowledge essential to the child’s welfare.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 4
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128THE BACKBLOCKS CHILD. Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 4
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