UNITY AMONG NATIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 536, 13 December 1928, Page 6

UNITY AMONG NATIONS

ESPERANTO IN SCHOOLS PROPOSAL FROM PARNELL

A proposal that the Education. D* partment be urged to consider the IB troduction into primary schools of a preliminary course in Esperanto *** brought before the Auckland PrinittT School Committees’ Association W evening by Mrs. R- Bloodworth. re presenting the Parnell School Com mittee. ~ ... her Mrs. Bloodworth said that committee considered that an Jlr national understanding was necessary and that the adoption to common language might do m remove the dread of another She quoted Professor Findley. 011 New’ Zealand Universities wno of the opinion that a class O^ t 7 V. ability could master sufficiently to correspond J vlu V akin g children of other nations by *j, e one half-hour lesson a day first year. The following v * n dtlie less study would be required, children could then * be ia choice of continuing their st Esperanto or embarking on a . n ging course. “World progress is the nations closer together, onfr language difficulty is barrier between them. c Mrs. Bloodworth. wheth^ Mr. R. C. Renner doubted the department would do ueS tion and considered that the *5might be left in the hands o sociation executive to carry 0 ? posal forward if it consid sufficient importance. *** Mr. Renner’s suggestion adopted. _