DEPARTMENTAL WORK Contd

White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 7, 18 August 1945, Page 3

DEPARTMENTAL WORK Contd

short, sex education is a part of living” (“National Education”). (4) We feel that no teacher should leave Training College without an understanding of sex hygiene, not necessarily to impart it to others, and not only as an individual member of the community, or as a future parent, hut as a member of a profession which has reat responsibilities in the care of the voting.

Great care is needed in iving explanation of these matters t the child mind for children n< e* : et what they learn when young. As an example, the story is told of how a wise, sympathetic teacher, who, instead of feeling that the natural attraction of two school children of opposite sexes, and of early adolescent age, was a terrible and evil thing, tactfully and courageously faced the task of enlightening

and helping to a higher conception the lad of good intelligence, who might have steered on to the rocks of ignorance and low ideals. \inong other

tilings, this teacher says: “We seldom think how’ much of beauty and loveliness is due to sex. It is because of sex that we are gathered in families and enjoy all the delights of home. It is because of this that we have the ties of kindred relations. The tender ministration of mother and sister in times of sorrow or illness are only possible because of sex. It is claimed by >'>me wise men that our love of music, of poetry, rrf romance, of beauty, are due to sex. In all organic life we find the same force at work. The song of the bird to his mate, the chirp of the cricket, every charming voice in wild nature, arc not ?s of love, and were it not for these, field and forest would be silent.” This wise approach to a difficult matter should appeal to all interested.