Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1919. BRITISH HISTORY IN SCHOOLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1981, 24 May 1919, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1919. BRITISH HISTORY IN SCHOOLS.

A CIRCULAR letter has been issued by the Imperial Studies Committee of (he Royal Colonial Institute, emphasising (lie importance'of teaching in Hie schools of (he Empire, not. merely the history of the British Isles, but the history of (lie British Empire. The letter, which is signed by Sir Charles Lucas, the chairman of the committee, is being forwarded, as far as circumstances permit, to local education authorities, public and secondary schools, and public libraries in the United Kingdom, and to education authorities in, the oversea British States. It is accompanied by enclosures calculated to put education authorities and the heads of schools and teaching instutions of all kinds, into direct contact with the organisations now existing to promote the teaching of the history and the geography of the Empire, and with the sources 'from which the latest and most exact information upon each component part of the Empire can tic obtained. This effort on the part of the Imperial Studies Committee is in furtherance of its desire “to ensure that, every citizen, at some stage of Ins or her education, will have had an opportunity of learning what can be learnt of the Empire beyond fhe bounds of the citizen’s own community, and may tints he prepared to take an effffectiye part in (he decision of questions which affect the British Commonwealth of Nations as a whole.”

SHOULD' THE SCHOOL COM ' " MITTEE RESIGN,

A CORRESPONDENT in this issue makes a. suggestion to the School Committee which may or may not be the general- opinion of householders in connection with the recent householders’ meeting for the election of i\ school committee. The suggestion is that the Committee should resign. Whatever opinions may be held as to alleged irregularities, there can be only one conclusion, apart altogether from bias, and that is that the Committee holds office “under a cloud.” If the Committee should fall in'with our correspondent’s suggestion, it would not mean, another election, but the Board would be called upon to appoint one or two commissioners to act until the annual meeting next year. The matter is one entirely for the Committee to decide, and how it will appeal to them individually we are not in a position to say.