Part 4 (1/2)

In this ould be generated that ”sy contact between all brainworkers and the coly pleaded for by Professor Lethaby who insists that ”soot into all our educational schemes”

Itaffects chiefly the proposed systee of eighteen, which has yet to be established for all boys and girls not in attendance at secondary schools or who have not completed a satisfactory period of attendance[2]

The inadequacy of the period of education allotted to the vast mass of the population and the need for educational reform in many directions can only be noted; both these matters however affect citizenshi+p profoundly

It is upon the expectation of early develop lines, indicated without detail, that our consideration of the possibilities of schools in regard to citizenshi+p er period of ele which no child shall be employed for other than educational purposes

(2) The establishirls up to the age of eighteen, the hours of attendance to be allowed out of reasonable working hours

(3) Coirls to continue their technical or humane studies from the elementary school to the university

(4) A distinct improvement in the supply and power of teachers, chiefly as the result of better training in connection with universities and the establishment of a remuneration which will enable them to live in the manner de

The two h the schools which have already been noted may be summarised as follows, andof civics or of citizenshi+p;

(2) The developh the ordinary school coood citizen

[Footnote 1: _Interim Report of the Consultative Coher Education, May_, 1916]

[Footnote 2: See _Final Report of the Departmental Committee on Juvenile Education in Relation to Employment after the War_, 1917, Cd

8512 The Bill ”to land and Wales and for purposes connected therewith” [Bill 89], had not been introduced by Mr Fisher when this article ritten]

THE DIRECT STUDY OF CITIZENshi+P

The study in schools of civic relations has been developed to a land This is probably due largely to the fact that the American need is the more obvious In normal times, there is a constant influx of people of different nationalities to the United States whoovernment to make into Areater disposition than in England to adapt abstract study to practical ends, to link the class-room to the factory, to the city hall, and to the Capitol itself As one of her scholars says:

Both the inspiration and the romance of the scholar's life lie in the perfect assurance that any truth, however remote or isolated, has its part in the unity of the world of truth and its undreamed of applicability to service[1]

There are in A them the National Education association, the American Historical association, the National Municipal League, the A steadily to make the study of civics an essential feature of every part of the educational system Their prime purposes are sue of the fact that the citizen is in a social environood;

(2) To acquaint the citizen with the forovernment in its several departments[2]

They clai citizen into direct contact with the significant facts of the life of his own local community and of the national community To indicate this more clearly they have applied to the study the naument that a sense of unreality e gained in the school is met by the close contact maintained all the time with the community outside

There is unaniht from the elementary school onwards:

”We believe,” runs the report of the Coht of the American Historical association, ”that elementary civics should perrades the most effective features of this instruction will be directly connected with the teaching of regular subjects in the course of study Through story, poe of those eraphies of great men furnish many opportunities for incidental instruction in civics The eleraphy serve to emphasise the interdependence of men--the very earliest lesson in civic instruction A study of pictures and architecture arouses the desire for civic beauty and orderliness[3]”

A recent inquiry by a Committee of the American Political Science association ht in the bulk of the eleenerally the results are satisfactory, or indicate clearly necessary refor suitable text-books is partly met by the addition of supplees and universities which do not provide courses in political science

No claiood citizens, but ood citizen into a better one The justification of the subject lies in its own content