A Lot Wrong —“l think there is a lot wrong with education in New Zealand; we arc pumping knowledge mechanically into children and there are plenty of things that are overlooked, such as character, sense of uprightness, and so on. The OpenAir Schools’ League thinks that by taking the children away from the sordid, enclosed classroom and showing them the sun, (lowers, and the sky we are helping to make them into good citizens.” These remarks were made by Dr. F. V. Bevan-Brown, a member of the executive of the OpenAir Schools’* League, in an address to members of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association,
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19012, 1 August 1933, Page 6
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