LAWS OF LIFE.
INSTRUCTING THE YOUNG. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The conference of school inspectors to-day discussed the question of sex instruction in public schools. The Minister of Education stated that a great deal of evil was caused by neglecting to instruct the young as to physiological facts of life. He referred to the large proportion of inmates of mental - .hospitals who were there through the perversion of sex instincts and ignorance early in life of sexual laws. He thought parents should teach tfieir own childretf, and he had doubts as to the advisability of calling on teachers to carry out this duty. Dr. Wilkins, chief medical officer of schools, read a paper suggesting thq form sex instruction should take for children of different ages up to 9 or 10. Ordinary teachers could do the work, but after the age of puberty there should be a special staff of instructors to deal with the matter. It was vitally necessary that the subject should be earnestly taken up, and every effort to stamp out a grave social disease was doomed to failure unless set instruction was given early in life. The Minister agreed that instruction should begin early. Meanwhile, schpol doctors will be looked to to provide a great deal of the required instruction.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1921, Page 4
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215LAWS OF LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1921, Page 4
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