WHAT A CHILD SHOULD KNOW.
An interesting list of what the London County Council considers a child of 11 to 14 should know was drawn up reentb- by the central consultative committee. Included in the list are the following: At 11. To read intelligently such , books as “Gulliver’s Travels” and Kingsley’s "Water. Babies,” and simple selections from poetry; to give an account of some incident actually observed; to dray?* simple plans of the schoolground and., district; to make weather observations and records; to draw simple objects from nature. At 14.—T0 show a knowledge of the laws of health; to read some of the plays of Shakespeare; to write original (including imaginative) compositions; to show a fair knowledge of government, local and Imperial; to show a general knowledge of tyres of people; to draw from memory.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3297, 16 August 1911, Page 8
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