VILLAGERS AT SCHOOL
— r $ — NOVEL SCHEME OF.EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. The new schemes for adult education whioh are anticipated as an early outcome of the new Education Act have been keenly discussed at a conference of wardens of non-residential settlements which has been held at the Leeds Settlement recently. The movements represented were York, Lemington-on-Tyne, Birkenhead, Pickering, Scarborough, Sheffield, and Leeds.
In eaoh case the syllabus is designed to meet the educational needs of working men and women. The settlements, are all in close touch with the Workers' Educational Association, and iu one case With the Y.M.C.A. At Pickering the warden's problem is how to get the rural labourer to read a book for twenty minutes without goiug to sleep.
As typical of what is being doiie the work at Lemington-on-Tyne and Walbottle. may be taken. These places nro so 'small us to have no other resources than the picture houses. The settlement consists of a lecture-hall with a kitohen, which is used for cookory lessons. An immediate exteneiou is contemplated, comprising a laboratory for nature study and for teaching ohemistry. About 80 people are attending classes in sociology, handicrafts, dramatic study, literature, and so on. No fees are charged for any of the classes, but the bowl on a table collects sufficient to meet expenses. The adult students aro making a social survey of the c-hild life of tho two villages} and investigating tho conditions of tho labour market and other rural problems. As a result' thoy have already set up a babies' welcome and olasecs fov mothers. The Sunday meeting is of a novel type. After the address the congregation adjourns'for coffee and discussion, and the men light their pipes.
On one Sunday morning a casual visitor strolled into tho settlement, and was so impressed that he made plans -at once for establishing village 'settlements throughout his estates in the south oi London. There was no little astonishment among the artisans when the visitor disclosed his identity as an Karl.
While 'engaged at work in tho tool shop at the Urd Roberts Memorial Workshops at Constitution Hill, Birmingham, 12 persons, including three wonion, wove overcome by an escape of fumes. Seven were taken to hospital unconscious and were-detained there, Two instructors wiji'g also gassed, but were strong enough to throw off the effects. II is supposed that the ventilation of the shops was affected by the bsavr fail of snow.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 208, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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401VILLAGERS AT SCHOOL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 208, 28 May 1919, Page 7
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