ON TRAINING IN CITIZENSHIP, 361 
Training in Citizenship.—Report of the Committee (Right Rev. 
Bishop Wetupon, D.D., Chairman; Lady Suaw, Secretary: 
Lieutenant-General Sir Rosperr Bapren-Powrextu, Mr. C. H. 
Buakiston, Mr. G. D. Dunxertny, Mr. W. D. Eacar, Mr. 
Maxwe.u Garnert, C.B.E., Sir Richarp Grecory, Mr. SpurnEy 
Hey, Miss E. P. Huaurs, LL.D., Sir Turoporr Morisoy). 
INTRODUCTION. 
THE response from educational authorities to the questionnaire sent out by 
the Committee on Training in Citizenship has not been so complete as the 
Committee hoped. The selections from the replies, however, contained in 
the two reports of 1920 and 1921 give evidence of considerable interest in 
the subject and variety in the method of dealing with it. 
The Committee regards Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Boy Scout and Girl 
Guide Associations as the most effective practical training on the social side; 
the isolated associations organised in some schools lack the democratic training 
of the public organisation. 
The Missions supported by some schools, though valuable as practical evidence 
of the different modes and possibilities of life amongst young people, require 
very careful handling if they are not to inculcate a conscious philanthropy that 
is destructive of democratic citizenship. The free mingling in games and other 
competitions of boys and girls from neighbouring schools of all grades and 
classes should afford more effective training. The separation of social classes 
as it exists at present is due mainly to difference of education, and ‘will 
disappear as education advances, and it is desirable that children from all 
schools should feel that they are fellow-citizens and can act together. 
The Committee estimates highly the interchange of teachers throughout 
the Empire and the visits of parties of scholars to other countries. It 
considers that correspondence between pupils in different parts of the Empire . 
and in other countries should be encouraged, and that the teaching of history, 
literature, and geography should be extended by continual reference to con- 
temporary events. The value of the study of biographies of great men and 
women appears to be fully appreciated by many readers. 
THE REPORT. 
_ The Civic Education League has represented to the Committee that the 
issue of the 1920 report makes a definite and remarkable advance in civic 
education, and has suggested that it should be distributed to teachers through- 
out the country. 
_ This suggestion was approved by the Committee, and permission has been 
given by the British Association to print the reports, if money can be raised 
for doing so. An appeal is being made through the Press and otherwise, 
and if the answers be favourable 20,000 copies of the report will be circulated. 
The Civic Education League has generously undertaken the necessary clerical 
work, if the reports are supplied to them and the postage, &c., provided. 
The Committee had in view the preparation of a bibliography which was 
to form an additional appendix. It has, however, been thought best to defer 
the printing of the bibliography to the final report to be presented by the 
Committee in 1922, when the book on Civics, under the egis of the 
Committee, will, it is hoped, be in the hands of the publishers. 
’ A letter has been received from New Zealand asking for testimony from 
leading British Educationists’ on the necessity of Bible reading in schools, 
and enclosing a broadsheet, A World’s Survey of the Bible-in-Schools Ques- 
tion, which contains a mass of evidence in favour of the use of the Bible 
in schools. (The State system of New Zealand prohibits the use of the 
Bible or religious instruction in Government schools.) 
1921 co 
