EDUCATION BY TRAVEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18021, 21 February 1922, Page 8

EDUCATION BY TRAVEL.

AUSTRALIAN BOYS' TOURS.

AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME. [FROM OUtt OWN COKttESPONDENf.] SYDNEY. Feb. 15.

An ambitious scheme to educate the boys of Australia by organised travel in their own country and overseas has been launched in New South Wales. It is proposed to cany' out the idea' under the auspices of the Young Australia League. The stages into which it is proposed to divide the scheme are:— (1) Tours from the metropolis to country districts. (2) From the country to the metropolis, or to other parts of the country, having different industries and conditions, travel Unit via the metropolis. (3) "Next-door" inter-State tours. - (4) Tours round Australia j that is, extended inter-State tours. '5) Tours outside the Commonwealth to places within 30 days' travel there and back, such an New Zealand, South Africa, Papua, Fiji, and other islands. (6) Tours round the world. The first stage is proposed to take the form of billeting schoolboys on fanners for a few days, walking tours, and rural

camps, Stage 2, it is proposed, will allow the country boys, many of whom have never even seen the ocean, to do so, and also to visit manufacturing centres, and become acquainted with modem buildings, and also compare the conditions of, say, Bourke with the North Coast. Owine to the limitation of transport stages 3 and 4 would be more keenly sought after, and will act as awards for scholastic diligence, whereas 5 and 6. would assume almost the nature of Rhodes Scholarships.