TEACHING OF HISTORY.
ITS IMPORTANCE RECOGNISED. STATEMENT BY THE MINISTER. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 14. Tho Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education) speaking at Newmarket, said: "Tor some years history has not been given the serious treatment in primary schools which its importance demands. In tho last syllabus it was made a compulsory subject, but the examination is not a written one. It is merely oral. We want an assurance that every New Zealand boy and girl is getting sound in the history of Great Britain and New Zealand, and we propose that written questions shall be put which will elicit answers giving a fair idea of the pupils' knowledge. Children will not be able to grow up as good citizens, understanding their full rights and the privileges of freedom that they now enjoy unless they learn how tho nation came to win those rights, and also know something of the battles and sacrifices of our ancestors who secured for us the blessings of the freedom which we enjoy to-day. They must know something of the history of the Motherland to understand and appreciate this.” It was also intended (he added) that children should be taught something of the history and growth <A New Zealand, which was full of interest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 8
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