Conference in Honolulu.
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Another Education Conference in Honolulu.
Prom Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, Feb. 6.
EDUCATORS from all over the Pacific are again to be brought together at a conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in June this year, announces the Progres sive Education Association, of 310 West 90th Street, New York. It will be called the New Education Conference.
The theme of the conference will be education for democracy in a world of conflict. One of the aims of progres sive education is to inflict the adult point
of view less upon receptive child minds.
The children under the new system are allowed to discuss freely in class the trends affecting their everyday life. In other words, less emphasis about George Washington and the picturesque cherry tree and more upon social frontiers in the everyday world.
Mr. Frederick L. Redefer, executive secretary of the Association in New York, is at present in Honolulu arranging de tails of the conference. He is anxious to hear from interested persons in Aus tralasia and the Pacific Islands in gen eral.
Mr. S. H. Ellis, of Suva, returned to Fiji from New Zealand in January.
New Zealand, in 1937, raised £11,568 for Methodist Mission work in 8.5.1.