North Canterbury Gazette THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938 Commentary
Why Teach Science And Not Rules of Law? . A suggestion that school curriculum should include elementary instruction in. the laws directly affecting the pupils as future citizens was made by Professor T. M. Taylor, when he presided at the Aberdeen Central School prizegiving, and it was cordially received. "I am not decrying scientific study," he said. "But I ask myself why it is that people who are not intending to be scientists should spend their time learning the rules that regulate the behaviour of chemical elements, and pay no attention to the rules which regulate their behaviour. "Every citizen is presumed to. know so much of the law as directly affects him or her, and yet there is no provision at all in our educational system for even elementary instruction in these rules, which every man, woman and child is already presumed to know."
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North Canterbury Gazette, Volume 8, Issue 36, 1 September 1938, Page 4
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