SCHOOLS AND THE FLAG

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 14, 17 January 1925, Page 13

SCHOOLS AND THE FLAG

"PARR OVERDOES' IT.'-'

: The Minister-of Education, Sir James criticism levelled- against part of h£ education policy.» ■* *"* . Thc_ modern and sound idea of education, he sa;d, was the all-round deveC raent of every faculty that a boy or girl possessed. Particularly did the TV partment seek to develop sound eharac' tor so that, the children Wldhat^he right attitude towards their native country and be loyal citizens, who'would reverence the laws and institutions of their country and remember the ereofBritish name they had inherited That' was what was being driven into the youngsters • in the school. "But/; continued.-Sir James, '-'they say Parr drives it too much into the vouno- ■?'«*, „P° "of believe that criticism lh O .;chiWven. cannoL have too much of it mere are m tins Empire' disintegrating factors; there are things VinV sad. and dene' which wouldTbfeak ou! glorious Empire to pieces- "to-morrow and we must counter these insidious but undoubted movements in that direc-: lion, rhc way we do it is by .giving every child a liberal education, enahbug eacl, one-to think clearly aud accurately, and in. seeing that the true ies-' 01 lustory arc instilled into their .ißirids, so th.it wrieu they grow up they wiil-not. only possess. lh 0 learning of the books but will have si mAI vhir-ic .t.'l-s,- mid u-ill -Imvc «. h* U f'h-m.; laimly, vuuulry, a^ii iiwiiitf " "-