TEACHERS AND PEACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22140, 20 June 1935, Page 9

TEACHERS AND PEACE

LEAGUE OF NATIONS IDEALS "The whole of the work of the schools should be permeated with the spirit of the league of Nations, for if the League is to command the suffrages of the future it must definitely set itself to win the coming generation." said Mr J. W Shaw in an address to the League of Nations Union at the Epsom Library Hall last evening. This was the second of the winter series of lectures under the auspices of the union. Mr. G. Cruickshank presided. Mr. Shaw, who spoke on "Teachers and Peace," said that the League should enlist the deepest sympathies of the teachers. It was difficult to make any impression upon people after they had reached maturity. All teachers should know thoroughly the aims and organisation and successes of the League and they should teach them to the children. It was part of the teachers' work to teach the pupil that the glamour of war had gone forever. Force was the argument of primitive society, but they had outgrown it. The child should learn that wars were but the eddies on the tide of a developing social life, continued Mr. Shaw. It should be taught to bo proud of its nation, but also that it was part of the international community. National pride could be instilled, but not national arrogance, and it must be appreciated that the highest values of the human soul were international Isolation under the conditions of the modern world was undesirable and impossible.