Report of the Imperial Education Conference, 1923H.M. Stationery Office, 1924 - 291 páginas |
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academic administration agricultural attendance Australia bilingual Board of Education Bonaparte Wyse boys and girls British bureau Canada candidates Cape Province cent central child classes committee cookery curriculum difficulty domestic subjects dominions educa education authorities elementary schools Empire England English established examining bodies farm give given Government grades grants high school higher Imperial Education Conference India industrial inspection inspector institutions instruction intelligence tests interest large number leaving certificate local education authorities London London County Council MARK HUNTER matriculation ment mentally defective methods missionaries native needs Nigeria ordinary organisation possible practical present primary school problem professional training pupils qualifications question realised recognised regard rural schools salaries school boards school course Scotland Scottish Education Department second language secondary education secondary schools Sir George Newman South Africa stage standard statistics Tate taught teachers teaching tion training college vocational
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Página 194 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Página 82 - WHY did the lamp go out? I shaded it with my cloak to save it from the wind, that is why the lamp went out. Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.
Página 167 - It will be an important though subsidiary object of the school to discover individual children who show promise of exceptional capacity, and to develop their special gifts (so far as this can be done without sacrificing the interests of the majority of the children), so that they may be qualified to pass at the proper age into secondary schools, and be able to derive the maximum of benefit from the education there offered them.
Página 60 - For including in the curriculum of public elementary schools, at appropriate stages, practical instruction suitable to the ages, abilities, and requirements of the children ; and (II) For organizing in public elementary schools courses of advanced instruction for the older or more intelligent children in attendance at such schools, including children who stay at such schools beyond the age of 14...
Página 254 - ... that 90 per cent, of the Native population live on the land, and should be encouraged to do so, special attention should be devoted to agricultural subjects; (vi) that, for the improvement of the economic condition of the people, the elements of hygiene should be taught in...
Página 268 - Muhammadan men of birth and standing, they should be subjected to no influences which might tend to make them careless about the observances of their religious duties, forgetful of the customs and traditions of their fellow countrymen or lacking in the respect and courtesy which they owe to their parents, to all who occupy positions of authority and to all old people.
Página 56 - I think that if we can train the children early to see the difference between what dirt, and waste, and selfishness make of a poor man's dinner, and what thrift and care and cleanliness can make of it at the same cost, we shall be civilising...
Página 167 - To require that boys and girls shall spend two or three years of their lives in striving after the unattainable is as futile from the point of view of the State as it is cruel from the point of view of the individual...
Página 136 - ... children's defects." Obviously the necessity of treatment, as well as diagnosis, was early recognized. An important part of the report was devoted to the question of providing meals for necessitous children. A succinct summary of the facts and tendencies revealed by this and the preceding reports is given by Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the board of education, in his first annual report : When the terms of this report are...
Página 64 - In schools for girls the curriculum must include provision for practical instruction in domestic subjects, such as needlework, cookery, laundry work, housekeeping, and household hygiene ; and an approved course in a combination of these subjects may for girls over 15 years of age be substituted partially or wholly for science and for mathematics other than arithmetic.