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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41

Part I

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Part I.

Reference to a preliminary report to the Minister of Education 3
Good work done by the Education Department 3
Want of organization 3
Over centralization 4
School census 4
Registration 4
Prosecutions now ordered by the department should be ordered by the school board 5
No recognised test of private education 5
No child must be withdrawn from inspection 6
The license of changing schools must be abridged 6
Proposed change in the method of calculating attendances 7
The legal minimum of school attendances has been fixed too low 8
Economy of increased school attendances 8
"Gutter children" 9
Existing ragged schools 9
Industrial schools 10
Extra subjects 10
Endowment of high schools 11
Scholarships tenable at the University or at affiliated colleges 11
Practical uses of university education 12
Proper model for a Colonial University 13
Some advantages of a faculty of Practical Science 13
Cheapest way of effecting the change 14
Payment and promotion of teacher 15
Actual system 16
Proposed central Training College 16
Promotion 17
Objection to the present system of teaching extras 17
Range of a teacher's work should be increased 18
Present system of payment by results 19
Manipulation of classes 19
Proposed system 20
Retiring pensions 21
Office and work of a school inspector 21
Proposed inspectoral staff 21
Payment of inspectors 22
More thorough general supervision of the inspectors required 22
Boards of advice should be allowed to expend small sums on repairs 23
Boards of advice should have the power of refusing to receive a disgraced teacher 24
Greater responsibility of boards of advice under the proposed system 24
Prizes 25
School buildings 25
Proper site for a school 26
Position of the inspector-general 27
Appointment of a second examiner 27
The Education Department to be brought under the Civil Service Act 28
Useless papers should be destroyed 29page iv
Effect of the proposed changes on parents, children, teachers, and inspectors 29
Economy effected by the proposed changes 30
Cost of the proposed changes 31
The changes proposed are recommended as relatively not as absolutely best 31
Promotion by merit 32

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