Training Children For Struggle Ahead
I British Official Wireless'! RUGBY, April 9. “It is high time we chose and trained for responsibility the very best of any stock we have. We must choose, not by examination alone, but by record and character,” said Mr. R. A. Butler. President of the Board of Education, addressing a conference of National Union Teachers in London. Mr. Butler appealed to teachers to keep the lives of children as normal as possible, because the more normal they were, the better could they be prepared for the shocks and struggle ahead. The drive and ruthlessness which had been marshalled for winning the war must be harnessed for the purpose of making progress along paths of social and educational advance.
Mr. Butler's address, showing Government realisation of the importance of education and of the teacher’s position in society, is in striking contrast to the neglect shown in Nazi Germany, where Press articles complain of overaged and partly unqualified teachers having to be used to the detriment of training given to students.
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Northern Advocate, 10 April 1942, Page 5
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