The Teachers

Teachers must be better paid. That stands out like a horse in a bedroom from the oceans of words cascading before the Education Commission. The hopeless paucity of recruits for secondary teaching is due partly to the occupation's diminished status in recent decades. But moreso is the fact that, not unreasonably, a person contemplating a teaching career wants to live comfortably with a measure of luxury. Do secondary teachers' salaries permit this ? Hardly.

The Preachers

The Christian churches don't have much influence these days it seems. Witness a recent letter in the dally press deploring the South African welcome to the All-White All Blacks, and signed by many clergymen. Response: Letters whose general tenor was, "why don't these meddling parsons pipe down and let us enjoy ourselves?"

So much for Churchmen.

The Tripe

While on South African matters, what price an appraisal of the Bantus' circumstances, social and economic by a New Zealand sports writer travelling with the team? Not surprising really. The Rugby pundits appear to be the high priests of modern Kiwiland, so may be looked to, to discuss anything under the sun.

The Type

That's the state of the country. The land of Rugby, Racing and Razoos. What kind of citizen is it producing? The type who run down to the beach when there's a tidal wave scare!

The Gripe

Somebody suggested to the Education Commission a return to the old methods of education. It's a matter of choice: modern education produces people who can't write; the old system produced L. D. Austin who as we know, can.