TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1922, Page 2

TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

THE PAMPHLET IN SCHOOLS. APPROVED BY COUNCIL, By Telegraph.—Press Association, Wellington, June 22. The Council of Education discussed Mr. McCallum’s motion that it considers temperance teaching should be so revised as to avoid creating a conflict of ideas in the child’s mind, in regard to normal family life and should be so framed as to secure the sympathetic support of all parents and so that all teachers may conscientiously instruct children without such instruction conflicting with their own personal habits of life. Mr. McCallum said it was a pity the matter had come up at all and that the department had not been more subtle in dealing with the question in the first place. Pamphlet 13 was not a fair exposition of the teaching that this country should countenance. The Council of Education passed a resolution that the council urge upon ■the Finance Minister that, as" soon as finances allow, more liberal treatment ■be accorded to the Workers’ Educational Association. Replying to the assertion that the association encouraged Socialism, Mr. T. U. Wells (Auckland) said the classes were intended to bring the university closer to the working man. There would be less soap-box oratory if there were more classes. Several speakers testified to the excellent work of the association, especially in teaching economics, hitherto practically confined' to the University.