Many of our readers will observe with satisfaction that the Board of Education have decided to raise the status of the Timaru Side School, and we desire to record our sense of the excellence of the service rendered by the Committee in taking the matter up and urging it upon the Board. The carrying out of this arrangement will be of immense benefit to the Main School, where, as is well known, the Third Standard classes are far too huge. This is always the case in every school, and in one like «ur Main School, the class is so large as to be quite beyond the control of one teacher. Any outlet for this superfluity of attendance would be gladly welcomed by parents and teachers alike. Not only are we glad to see that the Timaru School is to be thus relieved, but we are also glad that the attention of the Board and of the public has been once more called to the incon venient size of some classes and schools ; for if there is one thing which ought to be regarded as a pernicious educa tional nuisance, it is a huge school or an over-stocked class. The practice of herding vast bodies of children together is, we hold, most pernicious because it entirely prevents moral development, and the cultivation of individualism and tone. It is a very great pity there were not two schools built originally, instead of one, in Timaru. It is on these and other considerations that we base an idea which we have long entertained, and which we believe stands recorded on the annual minutes of the School Committee, that Borough Schools should be specially provided for. That idea will yet be carried into effect, we feel sure. It is all twaddle, a mere bid for popularity in rival districts, when members of Education Boards talk and spout about equalising educational advantages in town and country, and persistently set their faces against all expenditure on town schools, because of the need of the country ones. We are sick of such twaddle. The large centres of populationjhave the first claim on the public parse for Educa tional advantages ; the safety, efficiency and morality of the community depends upon its masses being educated. 