EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP
"Education for citizenship in an international world is a manysided and long-continued process. It begins with early lessons in love and consideration for others in the family eircle. It broadens to take in strangers to the family circle, other groups, foreigners, and other nations. It involves indirect training in citizenship," writes Dr. 0. A. Wheeler, D.Sc., in " Creative Education and the Future." "In the school there should he appropriate methods of discipline to prepare for freedom and to encourage co-operation; and right methods of teaching to develop powers of clear and unprejudiced thinking. The whole life of the eduoational institution and the indirect moral training given in every subject and activity must prepare its members to underiake their daily work in the spirit of service, to have a deep concern for the well-being of their fellows and of the community generally. Later there should be the explicit study of social, national, and international problems; and in maturity there will be the practical experience of fulfilling the duties of citizenship. The highest education in citizenship will come/rom a faithful performance of the work of life, from achieving a tolerance of differences between individuals and between nations, and from the actual practice of a morality based on persuasion rather than on force."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 121, 8 June 1937, Page 6
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