GOOD CITIZENSHIP.
TRAINING OF CHILDREN. (BY TELEGIiAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, June 11. The Hon. C. J. Parr, sneaking at Newmarket, said: “For some years bis, tory has not been given the serious treatment in the primary schools which its importance demands. In the last syllabus it- was made a compulsory subject, but the examination is not a written one; it is merely oral. Wo want nil assurance that every New Zealand boy and girl is getting sound instruction in the history of Great Britain and New Zealand, and we propose that written questions shall be put which will elicit answers giving a fair idea of the pupils’ knowledge. “Children will not be able to grow up as good citizens, understanding their full rights and the privileges of the freedom they enjoy, unless they learn how the nation came to win those rights and know something of the battles and sacrifices of our ancestors who secured for us the blessings of freedom which we enjoy to-day. They must know something of the history of the Motherland to understand and appreciate this."
It was also intended that children should be taught something of the history of the growth of New Zealand, which was full of interest.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 9
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204GOOD CITIZENSHIP. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 9
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