Education July 1934

The Headmaster has not the time nor the teacher the inclination or the training to assess the development of mathematical ability in student from year to year and the country has not yet felt the need of trying and accepting the new methods of teaching and testing which have been found time and again to be better more sensible and more exact and convincing than the dusky and subjective methods of [...] Let there be short tests after each assigment and a long test at the close of the session covering the entire course prescribed in the assignment (and not in the syllabus) The valuation of each of the two sets of tests may be fixed in the beginning and announced to the boys. [...] The problem of the medium of instruction and examintion the conservation of teachers unsuitable buildings lack of suitable text books instability of the staff rigidity of annual promotion regulations indifference on the part of guardians to understand the use of the method and in the case of aided schools the rigorous control of the management over the Head Master to chalk out a new line [...] It all rests noon the resourcefulness of an individual teacher to do his mite in his own little way to solve the biggest problem in Education—that is of drawing out the individuality in a boy and treating him and not the class as the unit to measure the progress of the work in the school. [...] Given the lengths of the nib and the holder of a pen to find the length of the pen.