SCHOOL SYSTEM
CRITICISM OF RESULTS CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE PALMERSTON N., Thursday The present method of teaching in schools was the target for many shafts at today’s session of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Dunedin brought forward a remit urging the Education Department to give consideration to the need for an improvement in the teaching of basic subjects, arithmetic, reading, writing, spelling and formal English, and, in view of the growing evidence of the lack of responsibility, to the necessity of instilling into the young mind that the rights of citizenship carry corresponding obligations, discipline in thought and action, in after life. Mr A. C. Stephens (Dunedin) said that young people were not showing a satisfactory degree 'of attainment in the subjects mentioned, and the fault lay in the method of teaching, new techniques having broken down.
The motion was carried, also one in which the conference welcomed the suggestion of the Director of Education that there should be some form of liaison between chambers and the Education Department. The conference expressed the opinion that there was too much centralised control of education, that the interests of citizens would best be served by allowing a generous measure of decentralisation, and giving wider powers to local education boards.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22514, 24 November 1944, Page 2
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