360 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION La 



2. Consideration of Proposals for promoting interchange of Students 

 between British and Scandinavian Countries. By Dr. Vincent 



N^SER. 



3. Educational Value of the Cinema. By Sir Richard Gregory. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 



The following Discussions took place : — 



1. Discussion upon Training in Citizenship, in which the following 



took part ; — 



The Rfc. Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, D.D. : Everybody now is an educationist. 

 There is everywhere a demand for education — for an education such as will 

 in its results justify an annual expenditure of more than £25,000,000, and a 

 largely increased expenditure in the near future. 



, The teaching profession, if it aims unitedly at an object, can attain 

 that object. It can create a nation of Hims. It can create a nation of 

 heroes. But the teaching profession seems to have lost something of its old 

 attractiveness, for not only are the most distinguished of the undergraduates 

 at Oxford and Cambridge less willing than they were 50, and even 25, years 

 ago to become masters in the public schools, but it is stated that double 

 the number of candidates for masterships and mistress-ships are needed to-day 

 in the elementary schools of London and the great provincial centres. The 

 law of citizenship as governing education prescribes that the teaching given 

 to children must be such as shall make the best possible use of the years 

 allotted to education. In elementary schools the proverbial three E.'s were 

 once regarded as constituting the sum of education. Men of business used 

 to tell me in Manchester that they would gladly sacrifice the so-called accom- 

 plishments of their clerks and typists for a sure basis of elementary knowledge. 



It is practically certain that in the future not only boys and girls, but 

 men and women, will be educated together, irrespective of social standing ; 

 the imiversities will be more and more thrown open to poor students. Some- 

 thing must be done by co-operation or co-partnership to create a fellow-feeling 

 between capital and labour. The schools — and above all the elementary schools — 

 must teach an enlightened patriotism. The children, who will so soon be the 

 adult enfranchised citizens, must be made to understand the dignity, as well 

 as the history, of the Empire. 



There is yet a final lesson which the schools must teach in the interest of 

 citizenship. It is the lesson of civic unity. Children whose parents possessed 

 divergent views, not only in politics but religion, must so far as i>ossible be 

 educated toscether. 



Sir Egbert Baden-Powell, K.C.B., LL.D. 



The need of out-of- school training and environment, as auxiliary to education, 

 for producing efficient and human citizens. 



This applies to girls equally with boys, their rapid social evolution having 

 outstripped their education. 



The main need for such training seems to lie in the direction of 



Character and Intelligence; Health and Physical Development; Handcraft 

 and Technical Skill; Service for the Community; Happiness through higher 

 ideals. 



The method of such training should be preferably through education rather 

 than through instruction ; through active desire from within to learn and to 

 express rather than from passive reception of ideas from without on the part of 

 the pupil. 



