TRAINING IN CIVICS
Three remits brought forward by SMissK. E. Cdad at tfie Secondary Schools Assistants' Conference, met with the approval of the delegates. The remits were:—(l) That questions on civics be included in the history paper for matriftilation : (2) thai a, syllabus in civics be drawn up suitable for V. and VI. forms; (3) that the Education Department be asked to recommend and to publish a suitably up-to-date book on civics for use in 111. 'and IV. forms of >7ew Zealand secondary schools. The mover stated that at present cnTCs^can be dropped in the. third year in ttis secondary schools. liv view ol present-day national needs this should rloiv be-so. Tlie secondary school syljrbus should be brought, .in this respect, into line with national needs ; the cultivation of a stronger spirit of citizenship and of co-opei'atioi\ Kducation has been mentioned as the cure for industrial unrest, but the education must be of the. right kind—the kfiid that satisfies the awakening tociai instincts of the adolescent. Or. the secondary schools lay :i Tieavy responsibility of meeting this "nv.tior.al r.oed —in the shape r.-t a v:cll-de-signecl .carricnlnm. Civic?, more than any other subject, coiild give the derived training. The remit? vvcre adopted.:
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2
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201TRAINING IN CIVICS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2
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