ON TRAINING IN CITIZENSHIP. 281 



Training in Citizenship . — Interim Report of tJie Committee, Eight Kev. 

 Bishop Welldon, D.D. (Chairman), Lady Shaw (Secretary), 

 Lieut. -Gen. Sir Egbert Baden-Powell, Mr. C. H. Blakiston, 

 Mr. G. D. Dunkerley, Mr. W. D. Eggar, Principal Maxwell 

 Garnett, C.B.E., Sir Eichard Gregory, Mr. Spurley Hey, 

 Miss E. P. Hughes, LL.D., Sir Theodore Morison. 



Introduction. 



Training in Citizenship consists of two parts, subjective and objective. The 

 former may be described as character-training and is concerned with the develop- 

 ment in the individual of those qualities which fit him to take his place in a 

 community with full appreciation of such privileges and duties as are the birth- 

 right of every good citizen. 



The second part is concerned with the education of the individual in the 

 history of civilisation and the laws appertaining to communal life which assure 

 to every member freedom for full personal development of mind and body. 



With this two-fold purpose in view it was decided to take, as far as possible 

 in the limited time and with the limited facilities at the disposal of a small 

 Committee of busy persons, a survey of the educational organisation of this and 

 of other coimtries from which information coidd be acquired for practical train- 

 ing of the young in citizenehip, and, further, to draw up a syllabus of theoretical 

 instruction which would be capable of expansion into an authorised text-book 

 on civics. 



A letter contributed by the Chairman appeared in The Tunes Supplement 

 for December 25, 1919, asking for help in compiling the items of the survey. 

 From the answers to this appeal it was evident that the pressing need was for 

 the syllabus. It did not, however, appear that one syllabus could be prepared 

 to meet all cases. A request came from Bootham School, York, for ' short courses 

 on the training of citizenship as well as long courses,' ' to help in a practical way 

 schools that uphold the idea of citizenship throughout the school career, and are 

 unable to find the time for more than a short intensive course of lessons.' Similar 

 requests came from other schools, but the greater number of correspondents asked 

 for an authoritative handbook of civics, and it was decided to take up this work 

 and to meet the other varying needs by appending a selection from the specimen 

 syllabuses and suggestions for lessons that were sent to the Committee by schools 

 and associations interested in the work. 



The Preparation of the Syllabus. 



The Chairman, at the request of the Committee, drew up and circulated a 

 detailed syllabus of civics which after criticism by the Committee was expanded 

 by Mr. Dunkerley from reports sent in by school teachers and from suggestions 

 made bv members of the Committee and others and from his own experience. 

 The syllabus thus expanded was again considered by the Committee and adopted 

 by them. It is included as Appendix I. in this Report. 



The Committee learned that Mr. Blakiston had in hand a Text-book of Civics 

 designed for use in the senior classes of the Public Boarding Schools. This book 

 has been completed on the lines of the syllabus, and the Chairman has contri- 

 buted a foreword to it. 



So important is it, however, that children of both sexes in all schools, 

 and not least in elementary schools, should be systematically taught to recognise 

 their duty to the Nation and the Empire that the Committee feel the time 

 IB opportune for issuing an official handbook uoon Civic Duty ; and, if the 

 syllabus now printed should receive the approval of the Educational Section, 

 they desire that a handbook on the lines of the syllabus should, if possible, 

 be issued with the authority of the British Aegociation. They would invite 



