EDUCATIONAL JOURNEYS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7

EDUCATIONAL JOURNEYS

SIR R. BADEN-POWELL ON TRAVEL.

(fltOH OCR OWN COHRBSPOND?MI.)

LONDON, 10th January. Illustrated by lantern slides, lectures were given to members of tho School Journey Association during the Education Conference by headmasters in London schools, who 6poke of the instruction pupils received in geography and physical development on the school journey. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who presided, said he had been learning ail tho time since he left school. When he left the ordinary public school ho received no warning that he would' have still to educate himself. If that was the case with the public school, which was supposed to finish a boy, how much more was it tho case in elementary education! Ho had been so moved with that feeling that he had produced a book on the subject, in order to warn boys that when they wont cut into the world they must educate themselves. Unless a boy did so there was the danger of becoming a waster. He believed school journeys could have an immense influence in the Department of Education. Ho did not like speaking from theory, but from personal experience. He began his self-education simply by travelling, and he learnt a good deal. He went on travelling, and had been doing so ever siucu, and learning at tho same time. When they heard talk of great men in' business preparing to deal with the Education Department with a big axe, he thought they must regard it with great anxiety. He hoped these business mon were taking the opinion of real educationists who understood-and realised what was possible in regard to tho value of school journeys. If they could only develop this splendid idea it was bound to have good results. The great value of school journeys was that they brought the young people of different .nations together in close personal touch and in real sympathy with one another. If children could be taught to regard" those of other, countries as personal friends or acquaintance* a gietifc Eton jnighf, be taken in time to avoid international quarrels. (Cheers.)