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DOMINION EDUCATION. LESSONS OF CONFERENCE. TREND SUMMARISED. ( (By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday. Agreement in a general way was expressed to-day by Professor A. B. Fitt, Professor of Education at Auckland University College, and president of the aewly-formed group of the New Education Fellowship in Auckland, with the conclusions reached about the New Zealand educational system by delegates to the conference of the Fellowihip. Professor Fitt said teaohers who bad never been abroad would have been surprised to hear from the lecturers how out-of-date the Dominion system was. In particular he agreed with the' views of the lecturers about examinations and grading. “Briefly the trend of the conference was the freeing of the teacher as a professional man or woman, the' freeing of the child as a creative and expressive individual, the broadening of the conception of education up to and including maturity to Include within its soope the full intellectual, emotional and bodily development of man and the enlistment in that process of the services of parents and other sections of the' community as well as the teacher,” be added.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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