Page 17 Advertisements Column 2

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20273, 26 June 1931, Page 17

• , "There..is in history a distinct loss in unduly lingering with local or New Zealand history," states the annual ro» port of the inspectors of the Otago Education «Board. ' 'ln some instances teachers appear *to become so fettered by this section of the work-that they cannot pass beyond it to the great history of the Motherland. . Valuable as knowledge of our own short history Is, it is to be remembered that British history is equally ours, and offering- as it does such great lessons as may be learned from a study of the struggle for freedom, the expansion-of the Empire, and tho lives of great men and women, no child should leave, the primary school'without considerable quaintance with this his great heritage. Nor should there be failure to impress the sacrifice and lessons of the Great War and to give the international view-' point,- inspiring the senior pupils with the. spirit of goodwill towards people of other nations. The schools can, and should', be a powerful' influence for both patriotism and the spreading of tho gospel of peace." • i'lte South Island School Committees' Federation ha-s decided to hold the next conference at Christchurch. A shilling advertisement in. the classified section of Thb Press will sell your goods. Try it. 12 words Is, three insertions 2s 6d. -—6