N.Z. PRISONS
Sir,—Regarding the discussion on New Zealand prisons, why not join forces and attack the problem at its source by trying to prevent young people from developing anti-social tendencies, which later take them to gaol. Psychology can discover early, latent abilities and inclinations toward constructive ends. Were these fostered in each child before the study of. facts (sometimes to the total exclusion of all that truly interests the individual child) many a cell might remain vacant. The emotional discipline so often lacking in adults might be achieved in the child, through the controlling and refining influence of music (not noise), art. genuine Handicrafts and natural history. gome children endure torment throughout schodl life “studying” subjects for which they are not mentally equipped, while the one thing they might have been successful in was not included in the curriculum. —Yours, etc., EDUCARE. June 28, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 5
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