Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 5, June 8th, 1949.

Where?

Where?

For the purpose of this article we will assume that standards have been lowered (though many N.Z.E.I. people are prepared to dispute the extent of this assumption). It is true that children now may not do till Std. 2 what used to be done in Primer 4. But is this necessarily a bad thing? In other words what are the aims of education?

Even supposing that a child now leaving school cannot write in the copperplate of the 1890's, is this necessarily a bad thing? In other words what are the aims of education? Let's see what they were.