NEWSPAPERS IN SCHOOLS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 5

NEWSPAPERS IN SCHOOLS.

, EDUCATION UP TO DATE. The valve of. newspapers in education is recognised by some schoolmasters i* this country, and occasionally . regular readings of the, journals .are conducted 1 in ■ ihe higher*. classes. The experiment is •carried further by a teacher in tun upcountry school in yiotoria who has a regular "Newspaper * Day,." The children oi the upper' classes put aside • their /text books and devote themselves -to^a ptudy of the Saturday Argus, each child being ■ | provided with' a copy of the paper. The shipping columns are first ' dealt with. The, chief trade routes traversed by the steamers > ' Advertised are Effaced* out, and the children follow; the ; produce of their district to' the other side 1 ol the' world. The flags or the 1 , maritime nafione hang on the walls,- tund ' are .used to ' make the lesson vivid, ';A collection of some' 3000 pictures called- firdin the magazfoes' off the, ■ last' fifteen -years^^are.Vibsed' in' connection. With these imaginary travels; If the children fdH&w^fcbe - All-Red : Route they are* shown pictures oPtKe^ islands, of life at sea, of Canada, and of a large Atlantic, liiier. • ;-The- auction' advertisements, provide"" exercise in ■ mentaU&riifchinetie, and tins mining column helps to impfurt information about the mineral products of the States. The small advertisements lead to an address on th» value of advertising, the- nrarvels of ' newspaper production, and the history of writing and printing. The news ' columns^*- provide so much material that a. selection 1 -has to be -made. The naval estimates -leid , to an address on the vital. importance* of the fleet, the troubles in Macedoniid^ Spain, and elsewhere " soggasfc: . a ■ comparison between -British.;- and -other formsyofeGovexniment. The cricket, column suggests reflections on the value of ithe game, and calls- iorth ' reminiscences front thei-teacheiT^jf'^iants { of -twenty or move years • ago. , A class $? .incites, Newbolt'g- "Toroh oi -Life," witfi ' its cricket opening refrain of "Play.iqr, play tip, 'and play the game!'.' Casualties suggest, lessons on the taeatmenk of injuries. The chUdcen look down, the list of ''situations vacant," choose positions,and are shown by the .teacher how to write tetters' of application for them. Such instruction, fjiifi Js . ,tfro d£maod» of inspectors that teaching 'should be prac-f tical, np'-fo-^afo/ load real, •,• ■ •_' ■ ■••_* ..

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