ACHIEVEMENT OF A CONFERENCE

Te Ao Hou, April 1956, Page 37

These photographs were taken at a refresher course for teachers in Maori schools held at Ardmore College, Papakura, last January. Here ninety teachers, Maori and pakeha, discussed the education of the Maori child. Mr J. Binsley, travelling arts and crafts teacher talks about teaching pottery to Ted Waaka (Waipiro Bay), Whare Isaacs (Kennedy's Bay, Coromandel), Graham Gardiner (Pipiriki), and R. Rata (Te Kaha), all teachers in the Maori schools service. ACHIEVEMENT OF A CONFERENCE We are all becoming a little tired of conferences. There are always the few enthusiasts who say we do not have enough of them, but there are many more wise people who see how much life usually remains the same between the Conferences, and they say ‘we confer too much and work too little’. We must apologise to these people for giving so much space of Te Ao Hou to the story of another conference. But this one was extraordinarily important: we are referring to the discussions on the education of the Maori child held in Wellington last November 23 and 24. For two days twelve men, Maori and European, discussed the future basis of Maori education