A WIDER OUTLOOK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 10

A WIDER OUTLOOK

TRAINING THE CHILD

INTERNATIONAL TOPICS

CIVICS AND THE LEAGUE

Some important resolutions regarding tlio teaching of civics ajul international' ism ' were adopted by the Council t,i Education at its meeting hold last week. With reference to civic training m .schools it was resolved: "That this council considers that every opportunity should bo taken in the schools to promote ideals of social, service." A further resolution stated "thru the council, being impressed with t'i<paramount need for educative work in the direction of international knowledge as the indispensable preliminary for international goodwill and servk«"> recommends the Department' to utiljs' more fully the School Journal and tie Education Gazette for the purpose of familiarising schools with the orgaai-v tion and activities of the League of Nations and the work and ideals of t' c League of Nation's Union." The council expressed pleasure witlthe rapidly increasing measure of support accorded to the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements in "the Dominion under the new scheme of control, and m view of the national importance of this educational organisation, commended it to the sympathetic interest or the Minister of Education. "The council notes with approval a glowing appreciation of the cultural value of music, and recommends the Minister to foster tliia growing interest in our schools,'' was the text of a vasolution in connection with • .which" tbtdiscussion showed even more'clearly the council's appreciation of the good work that is being done in the primary schools to improve school music.