The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-28
NEW ZEALAND SYSTEM
OF EDUCATION FINEST
Former Official Of THAI Country Re
ported in kiimarnock Paper. Says
EIucafiOnal ExnnrfS so ReuaId 1t

Former Official Of That country Re
ported in kiimarnock Paper. Says
Educational Experts So Regard 1t.
Il think I would be justified and
would have the approval of education
al experts throughout the world il [
said that the New Zealand educational
system, taking it all round, is the
finest and the best in the world" said
George FoWlds. of New Zealand in
Fenwick, Scotland, some time ago,
as reported in a copy of the kilmar-
mock Standard kindly loaned The
News and Observer by Mr.. M. Monte
Of Raleigh.
The educational system of New
Zealand as described by Mr.. Fowlds.
who was for five years Minister Of
Education in New Zealand, is as fol-
lows:
w have in all the large centres
Of population free kindergarten
schools where the children are taken
in as early as they are capable of be-
ing sent and taught under the Froebcl
method Of education.> Part Of the
money for these free kindergarten
schools is found by voluntary contri-
buttons but the larger portion is given
in the form of a subsidy under GER
tain conditions from the State. The
Government does not a that grant
beyond seven years of age in the kind
ergarten schools. When the children
1 come to seven years Of age they pass
into free primary schools, and we
have had free primary schools in ope-
ration for a long time. We provide
a school wherever nine children can
be found in any district where they
are five miles away from the nearest
public school, and we send out a
teacher with a minimum salary of
$50 a year, rising by flo a ear to
f12O, even if there are only nine child
rem. The children thus a the OPP
pOrtunity, almost in the most back
ward of the-out blocks of the country.
of a very good elementary education,
and all children in New Zealand who
pass what we call a proficiency test
before they are fourteen years of age
are entitled to go on to the secondary
school for three years as junior free
place scholars. They may in their
choice Of a secondary school go eth
er to a classical school or to "a tech
meal day school, and these technical
day schools are so diversified as to
cover the great bulk of the industries
Of the Dominion. For example, a
secondary school is a dairying district
would have as a special feature Of its
work the training of the children il
all matters relating to dairying-the
| testing of milk and all the elementary
processes in the operations of thu
dairy. The secondary school on the
!, classical side is of course very much
like the old ordinary high schools il
: this country, preparing for the exami-
: nation test for the University. A
the end Of three years of these junior
free places. if they successfully pas:
the examination for the senior free
places they go on for other two years
of free education at these high schools
If they nave real ability and if they
= have applied themselves during theS'
1 five years they ought to be able Il
a pass the junior University examination
S with credit-that is. with gaining
I certain numbe OF marks in their tx
t domination, and if they succeed in do