Mins Irene King in a paper on "Problems in day school work" remarked that one of the great diffi cult that had to be faced was the lack of @ proper school spirit. Parents seemed to have little idea of the purpose of education and there was a tendency to look upon school as something in the nature of a day nursery from which the children could be kept on all sorts of trivial pretexts. Another difficulty lay in the poor equipment of many of the schools, including the lack of playgrounds and thoroughly satisfactory text books, but, to the speaker's mind, the great difficulty was the securing and retention of
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