ABSTRACT
The outstanding feature of twentieth-century secondary education in New Zealand has been the population explosion. The immensity of this explosion may be illustrated vividly when it is realized that the total number of all pupils at all types of secondary schools in New Zealand in 1900 was of the order which to-day could be accommodated comfortably in only two large contemporary American high schools, such as New Trier (Illinois) or Topeka (Kansas), or in three large contemporary London comprehensive schools, such as Wood-berry Down. So great has the population explosion been that even one hundred Woodberry Downs would be swamped by New Zealand’s secondary school population of to-day.
