NEW COMMANDMENTS
NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOLS SYDNEY, July 23. By order of the Minister of Education (Mr Davies) a new set of "ten commandments’’ are to be taught in all the schools of the State. These are not of Australian origin, as one would expect from such a man, but come from Czccho-Slovakia. Mr Davies describes them as beautiful ideals, and in that he is probably quite right. Here are the commandments:— (1) Love your jchoolmatcs; they will be your companions for life and work. (2) Love instruction, the food of the spirit. Bo thankful to your teachers, as to your own parents. (3) Concentrate every day on one good, useful deed and kindness. (4) Honour all I onest people; esteem men, but humble yourself before no man. (5) Suppress all hatred and beware of insulting your neighbour; be not revengeful, but protect your rights and those of others; love justice and bear pain and misfortune courageously. (6) Observe carefully and reflect well in order to get at the truth. Deceive not yourself or others, and beware of lying, for lies destroy the heart, the soul, and the character. Suppress passions, and radiate love and peace. (7) Consider also that animals have a right to your sympathy, and do not harm them or tease. (8) Think that all good is the result of work; he who enjoys without work ing is stealing bread from the mouth of the worker. (9) Call no man a patriot who hates or has contempt for other nations, and who wishes and approves wars. War is the remains of barbarism.
(10) Love your country and your nation, but be co-workers in the high task that shall make all men live together like brothers in peace and happiness.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 189, 12 August 1931, Page 7
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