EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP
DELEGATES DEPART. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 27. The 12 delegates to the New Education Fellowship conference in New Zealand are leaving this afternoon to continue the conference in Australia. Dr William Boyd, Director of Education at Glasgow University, interviewed before leaving, still believed the grading system fundamentally wrong and reiterated the viewpoint that a double system of control was necessaiy, namely, a central system of experts and control by local boards each with its own functions but not entirely
divorced one from the other. Speaking generally, he said that New Zealanders were ah intelligent people but lacking somehow in forceful, constructive thought. They were too docile. This was possilily due to their agricultural background, which left too little time for leisure thought, and also was due in a measure to the school system. There was not sufficient interest in things of the mind and spirit, though he was impressed by their facility in social inventiveness,, namely, welding the circumstances at present in the country to make for social progress.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 10
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172EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 10
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