TRAINING OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
. PRESENT SYSTEM CONDEMNED (I!y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ( Hun Oahi» i LONDON, April 22. A delegate, at the schoolmasters’ conference deplored the tact: 'bat ten out of seventeen boys in hi.s class admitted having sweepstake tickets m their lockers. lie urged that school Hiildi’i'i should In* given better, training to meet tin* world's temptations. Instead of sending boys out to work when they reached the age of 11 it would he better to pay them an honorarium to remain at school longer. Tin’s would be a wiser investment, than paying unemployment doles, 'l'lie present system was creating a. generation with a hang-dog look, with resentment in its heart, and with eyes always cast down searching for cigarette butts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 26 April 1924, Page 3
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