The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
II.—Standards of Education. — Invercargill
II.— Standards of Education.
Invercargill.
(1.) That, in Arithmetic especially, the Standards are too high, and that they should be reduced to correspond with those of the Otago Board, formerly in force, and superseded by the present Standards.
(2.) That the number of compulsory subjects is too great.
(3.) That Science should not be introduced in the school course until the Fifth Standard be passed.