University History Course
Sir, —ln a recent issue of “Education,” Dr. West, of Victoria College, argues (in my opinion convincingly) that the stage I history course is more fruitful in every way now that modern history has been eliminated’from it. The period now dealt with (from 40 A.D. to 1400 A.D.) can be treated in a reasonably continuous way, and though closely linked with the modern age. it is yet animated by a very different spirit. Hence a person doing stage I history at Victoria College has some chance of breaking the shackles of spiritual provincialism forged by the study of secondary school history, especially the curious mixture of modern.history and current affairs that bears the label “School Certificate History.” Would this not meet Mr Johnston’s objection, reported in Tuesday’s issue, that with the proposed new syllabus,, teachers “would get little help in their school work from their university studies”?—Yours, etc., G.H.D. April 30, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 3
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155University History Course Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 3
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