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Training in Citizenship. — Third Report of Committee (Eight 

 Rev. Bishop Welldon, D.D., Chairman; Lady Shaw, Secretary; 

 Lieut. -Gen. Sir Robert B.\den-Powell, K.C.V.O., K.C.B., Mr. 

 C. H. Bl.\kiston, Mr. G. D. Dunkerley, Mr. W. D. Egg.\r, 

 Mr. J. 0. M.\xwell Garnett, C.B.E., Sir Richard Gregory, Mr. 

 Spurley Hey, Miss E. P. Hughes, LL.D., Sir Theodore 

 Morison). 



Report- 



The work of the Committee during the current year has been divided into 

 three parts : — • 



1. The printing^ and distribution of the reports presented in 1920 at Cardiff 

 and in 1921 at Edinburgh. 



2. Compilation of a Bibliography of Civics. 



3. A survey of the training methods adopted in the schools of the Empire 

 for the formation of character. 



The Committee desire to thank the Association for the additional number of 

 500 of the Cardiff and 250 of the Edinburgh reports, and for the permission to 

 use the type of the reports to obtain any further copies that might be deeme.- 

 desirable. 



In September 1921, with some help from friends, 2,000 copies of the Cardiff 

 report were obtained, and in December 1921 the Committee purchased 4.000 

 copies of the Cardiff and 250 copies of the Edinburgh report. Copies have been 

 supplied to all the Education Authorities, and, through the Board of Education, 

 the Scottish Education Department, and the Irish National Board of Education, 

 to all the Inspectors of schooLs in the United Kingdom; 4,965 of the Cardiff 

 reports and the whole of the Edinburgh reports have been circulated, the 

 greater number by sales to the Education Authorities and persons engaged in, 

 or interested in, education. 



A remarkable and active interest has been evinced in the subject, and a 

 large number of books have passed through the press. 



The demand for trustworthy text-books which reached the Committee from 

 teachers has led to the compilation of the Bibliography that forms the Appendix 

 to this report. The Bibliography was in the first place drafted at the London 

 School of Economics under the superintendence of the Librarian, Mr. Headicar, 

 to whom the Committee's cordial thanks are due. To include in the list all books 

 bearing on the subject was felt to be not only impossible but undesirable. 

 Teachers for the most part have ready access to books on history, literature, 

 philosophy, &c. ; but civics is not yet recognised as a school subject. What i<= 

 required is a knowledge of where the facts of civics as they exist at the present 

 day can be found. 



A knowledge of civics, the forms of central and local government, and of 

 the laws under which we are governed and the provision made for the mainten- 

 ance of the citizen in health, peace and freedom, is only a part of the training 

 in citizenship. The good citizen will certainly seek for knowledge of such 

 subjects ; but such knowledge alone will not make a good citizen. It is a 

 valuable part of his training, but only a help to the formation of his character. 



In the course of inquiry the Committee have received a good deal of infor- 

 mation upon the steps taken in various countries to supplement what may be 

 called the secular side of civics by traininc; the young of both sexes in the 

 duties and virtues of good citizenship. There was published some time ago in 

 New Zealand a remarkable Broad Sheet containing a great number of opinions 

 offered by influential teacheis and writers in many parts of the Empire uooii 

 the value of the Bible in the formation of character. The Committee, while 

 they do not wish to raise the religious question bv quoting any expressions from 

 this Broad Sheet, yet feel justified in ouoting three remarkable passages from 

 tlie report of the Denartmental Committee, over which Sir Henrv Newbolt 

 presided, upon the position of English in the educational system of England. 



1. ' Where foreign writers cannot be studied in their works as they wrote 

 them the motto of the student should be " not text-books but translations," 



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