INCULCATING LOYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 150, 25 June 1921, Page 7

INCULCATING LOYALTY

Lessons in history and civics and saluting the flag to inculcate loyalty have been warmly approved from many quarters. The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) has received further suggestions that the flag should be sainted daily instead of once a week. Mr. Parr eaid yesterday that he would have no objection at all to any school committee or education board making an arrangement of this kind. Another suggestion that has reached the Minister from school committees in Auckland and Dunedin is that members of education boards, school committees, and other educational authorities' exercising powers delegated by the Government, should be required to take the oath of allegiance prescribed for members ,pf Parliament. The Minister yesterday expressed general approval of this idea. He said that at the time when propaganda of an anti-British and disloyal character was being undertaken by certain people throughout the Empire, he thought it would be wise to see that the people who; served on educational authorities were loyal citizens, who loved their country. He intended to submit the suggestions of, the school committees to Cabinet. Mr. Parr also expressed the opinion that in the future one of the conditions of the issue of a teacher's certificate should be the making of a declaration of loyalty and allegiance, No teacher should bo. allowed to draw his country's pay if he was not prepared to declare himself a loyal subject.