REPORT

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 4, 1 May 1948, Page 4

REPORT

OF SUB COMMITTEE SET UP TO BRING DOWN RECOMMENDATIONS ARISING FROM THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS The Committee recommends:— 1. “That emphasis be given to moral teaching in the Primary Schools based on the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule; and that this teaching be given an important place in the curriculum with the object of giving the child a full sense of moral and spiritual values.” 2. “That the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Licensing be given effect.” Extract:— teacher*’ Training College*. "Sufficient attention should be given to the training of teachers to deal with the topic of temperance in the schools. The information supplied in the* text-books should be kept up to date. Attention should he given to the social effects of alcoholic excess.” Primary School*. 1. Instruction should be given in accordance with the syllabus of 1945. 2. The Department of Education should, as the Department suggests, prepare for the assistance of teachers in the primary schools, pamphlets stating in simple form the latest scientific findings on the effects of alcohol. The Health Department should assist. We recommend that the pamphlets should include specific reference to the social effects of ovcr-indulgen~e in alcohol. 3. The School Medical Officer, if lie or she has the capacity for teaching, might give an occasional talk on the subject of temperance. 4. Film of a scientific nature might be used. 3. “That in the social studies given to the children in schools full emphasis be given to the principles of Democracy and the Democratic way of life.’’