TRAINING IN CITIZENSHIP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7243, 31 July 1907, Page 1

TRAINING IN CITIZENSHIP.

The Devonshire Education Committee have" drawn up a syllabus of moral instruction and training in citizenship. For infants (under seven years), the habit's of cleanliness, tidiness, manners, fairness, kindness, truthfulness, and courage are to be inculcated. In t.be lower standards (seveivto eleven years), the virtues of cleanliness, order, manners, obedience, kindness, gratitude, fairness, honesty, truthfulness, honour, courage; justice, humanity, "work;- perseverance, self-control, and temperance are to bo taught in a more detailed fashion. Tho syllabus for the upper standards is of a more advanced nature. It deals with abstinence from intoxicants, and the poverty, disease, and crime resulting from intemperance, courage, 1 justice, zeal, the necessity for and the dignity of work ; patriotism, and how each may serve his country and posterity ; the vote, its nature and responsibilities ; local government, the nation and its government, universal brotherhood, the value of peace and her victories, the evils of war, the value of arbitration ; the need for thrift, the evils of debt, betting, and gambling ; co-operation, ownership, self-knowledge, the training of the will, self-respect, and the value and beauty of an ideal for life.