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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 61

Education

Education.

In conjunction with other parts of New Zealand, Taranaki is a partaker in the amount annually voted by Parliament towards "Free Education."

In the County of Taranaki for the year 1885 the number of children on the rolls of the various schools was 2261, yielding a working average of 1609; the number of teachers being 60, distributed through 35 schools.

Including teachers' salaries the amount spent was £9483 11s. 3d. (This includes only the Counties of Taranaki and Clifton.) The doubt arises whether the high pressure so ardently pursued at the present day yields all the results that could be desired. The knowledge so hurriedly administered is too like a tender plant, forced by an undue temperature, a few green leaves shoot forth with apparent vigour, which, from the need of a thorough rooting, shrivel, and die, when exposed to the outer world.