The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 72
The School Inspectors' Conference. — An Address delivered by Mr. John Gammell, B.A. — (Late Inspector of Schools and Secretary to the Westland Education Board), — Before the Southland Branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, at Invercargill, on June 28, 1894
Contents
- [introduction]
- Free, Secular, and Compulsory
- Is Cramming Rather than Education
- Much Cry and Little Wool
- Reformed by Pressure from Laymen p. 2
- It Wants Simplification Right Through
- The Teaching of History
- Reading
- Science Teaching in the Primaries p. 3
- Technicalities of Grammar
- Geography
- The Great Evil of the Present System p. 4
- Inspectors Officers of the Central Department
- Exchange of Inspectors
- Selection of Teachers p. 5
- The Boards Should Select and Appoint
- A Reform Suggested
- Head-Teacher has Not Full Control
- Reformed Out of Existence; p. 6
- What should be Substituted?
- Advantages of this Plan
- What are We Getting for Our Money?
- A Formal Annual Examination
- How it Would Work p. 7
- No Claim for Originality p. 9
- Favor in High Quarters
- A Weak Compromise p. 10
- A Decidedly Retrograde Step
- My Most Emphatic Protest p. 11
- The Reform Feasible and Practicable
- Will Insist on Radical Reforms