THE JUNIOR CADETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15025, 21 June 1912, Page 6

THE JUNIOR CADETS.

, Much good may result from the [ inquiries being made by the Mmistei l for Education with a . view to re } organising the junior-; cadets. The I public school cadets have always I been disassociated from the Defenct 3 Department and directly /under the 3 control of the Education Depart- » merit, but the methods of training '''V • *

ir havo, ..betn too freely borrowed from jf military sources,...and the result, as is Mr. Hanan has found out, is a ten-/ :r dency.fto overdo soldiering and to e neglect physical and mental developh mcnt. There is a great deal in the n boy scout methods -that might be d successfully grafted, on to the junior n cadet system in New Zealand, and Q it is gratifying to know that the y Education Department will have the If- assistance, of a report on the subject y by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the e originator and organiser of tho y scouts. All boys cannot be scouts, '£ 'but all boys can profit in body, in e mind, in character and in aptitude d by any system of training intelli7, gently developed from the boy scout a model. In the schools such a move--3 ment should have the sympathy and & support of the teachers, and if the Minister by reasonable arrangements a with the-teachers can get over the e great difficulty of finding suitable d and enthusiastic scoutmasters , his o- effort to " demilitarise" the cadets c may bear good fruit,,, h' •/. '■ - - ■