A few lines from Woolgoolga Public School : centenary 1884-1984, Woolgoolga, N.S.W. [Woolgoolga
Public School Centenary Committee]:
1932-1935 ... People attending school
during this period will remember the eccentric Mr. Hinman. The present
Department of Education’s historian has found him unusual and “a hard man to
describe”. Mr. Hinman felt that Woolgoolga was literally “ a hotbed of barely submerged seething passions”.
In 1935 Mr. Hinman was credited with the
statement “Very many of the children of
Woolgoolga are not worth educating. They come from the convict stock from Port
Macquarie and therefore have convict tendencies. It is impossible to do
anything with such material. If they were any good they would not be in
Woolgoolga”.
Photo: Public School Woolgoolga, 1929
Panel 6 - Early Education
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