EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17321, 22 May 1918, Page 9

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

The annual meeting of the Educational Institute,. Otago District, was held on Friday night. Mr G. W. Macdonald occupied the chair. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follow:—President, Mr R. R. Hunter (Arthur Street); committee—Misses Mackenzie, Ralston, Sullivan, and Messrs Johnson, Partridge, Abel, and Stewart; delegates to Committee of Management—Misses Ralston, Mackenzie, and Morris, and Mr Macdonald; secretary, Miss Morris (Wakari). It was decided to circularise the head teachers in all schools in the Dunedin branch district asking for small subscriptions' from scholars and staffs to enable the branch to donate a cot (the gift of the schools) in the Red Cross Home Mr Eudey opened a discussion on "The Teachjng of History." He advocated the necessity for teaching history in our schools, not as lists of isolated dates or facts, but that the facts of history may broaden tlio range of the learner's experience, and help hiir. to interpret the world and play his part in it. The speaker outlined various ways m which the teaching of history in our schools _ could bo improved, even in the short time now allowed for the subject. Several speakers endorsed tho views that Mr Eudey had put forward.