"TRUE MISSIONARIES"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 9, 11 July 1938, Page 4

"TRUE MISSIONARIES"

INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS

(Fran "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May .25.

Teachers' who attended the annual meeting of the League fit. the Empire, which Controls the system" of .the i*iterchanige* of teachers throughout the Empire^ were told fey LieiitenantColoner the Hon. T.:W, Australian of Trade and Customs, that they. were the apostles :and true missionaries of education" in the Commonwealth of Nations.' [';\/''' ' They b^re an intense.responsibility for what they put into the minds of young pjeople, he .saiA'lJQ. propaganda or' jingoisin was? \ waMed, But practical ; spiHt that impelled beopleto take;a risk in times of national crisis. r '" rvr

.Dr. Bernard Allen, chairman.of the Ihterchangb ■Committee, "who presided, wplcomedlthe intercHange1 of between .tiie ppnu^ons? as .Weli as between the ,23pn^io'n^'and**Oreat Britain". Foii^* Australian teactfers, he said, had peen: IhtCTchaiiged* with members; of .the sariie profession ia the Transvaal ahd Cariadja, last^eari The annual report.?tate4^that 178 teachers we*e exchanged, duj-f^g 1937, the highest intimber since scheme was inaugurated. Since 1919 no fewer than 3326 telphers-hacMjeen exchanged. A position haSdhowjt>eenijeaqliecji'whea certain education - authqrlties i s?|].home and abroad ipund.-it'imprac^c^fele to increase f urthier. the number^^otvjeachers^; under thei scheme..- v■'-.%Swi" Twelve New Zealanders -|eftf|bie Dominion on exchange in^-iss7. ,-.•,:...

A speaker afi the annual meeting was Miss Olive Jojnes,.-who wei^fc-tO; New Zealand under the : -scheme last year. The • experience,,. . she said, C Wjrjiß extremely valuable ■to her. -V- v; v v- f