362 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
In the interim report presented at Cardiff in 1920 a few typical schemes 
of training in Civics and Self-Government were outlined, and a sufficiently 
wide syllabus of things that a citizen should know was printed, and forms 
the basis of a book which is being prepared under the auspices of the Com- 
mittee. The present report assumes the need for Civic instruction to be 
generally admitted, and aims at giving some account of the work which 
has been, and is being, done in different parts of the Empire. 
The older Public Schools of this country have never been wanting in 
the spirit of Citizenship, although the workings of that spirit may have been 
limited to a narrow field. Lack of knowledge, rather than lack of patriotism, 
is likely to be the ground of any charge of deficiency in these institutions ; 
and even in this respect there is ample evidence of efforts made in recent 
years to widen the knowledge and the sympathies of the average Public 
School boy. Apart from the increased importance of Modern History and 
Geography as school subjects, special lectures on Civics are given at many 
schools, and some have started Political Societies, in which modern social 
problems are discussed, and School and House Debating Societies of older 
standing are continually choosing social subjects. A Schoolmaster writes : 
‘The boys are ever so much more open-minded and serious about social 
questions than they were three or four years ago.’ 
An Inspector of Secondary Schools gives similar testimony, remarking that 
Sixth Forms throughout the country are adopting what he imagines to have 
been the mental attitude of the Rugby Sixth Form in the days of Arnold. 
In response to a questionnaire addressed to Headmasters as to instruction 
in Civics and schemes of Self-Government, a number of answers has been 
received in which, as might be expected, there is some difference of opinion 
as to the letter of the instruction, though none at all as to the spirit. 
In Section I, a series of extracts from the answers received from the older 
Public Schools is given, while Section II. contains those from Public Girls’ 
Schools. 
Section III. contains the substance of replies from co-education schools, 
including an interesting experiment introducing a League of Nations. 
Section ITV. deals with Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. 
Section V. with the overseas Dominions. Colonies, and Dependencies. 
World-Citizenship is doubtless the ideal of every serious reformer, whether 
he be a missionary of Religion, of the League of Nations. of Imperialism, 
or of Communism, but the Civics of the family, the school, the parish, the 
district, and the constituency are probably wide enough for most boys and 
girls to study in detail. 
SECTION TI. 
Extracts from Letters received from Headmasters and Assistant 
Masters of Publie Schools. 
The Committee accepts no responsibility for the opinions expressed in the 
extracts. The order of arrangement of the extracts is fortuitous. 
Answers were received from correspondents at 1, Oundle; 2, Giggleswick ; 
3, Eton; 4, Leys School, Cambridge; 5, Haileybury; 6, Harrow; 7, Malvern; 
8, Rugby; 9, Cheltenham; 10, Repton; 11, Epsom; 12, Fettes; 13, Mill Hill; 
14, Manchester Grammar School; 15, Shrewsbury ; 16, Westminster; 17, Welling- 
ton (Berks) ; 18, Winchester; 19, Bootham School, York; King Edward’s School, 
Birmingham: King’s School, Canterbury; St. John’s School, Leatherhead ; 
Sherborne; Uppingham. 
1. ‘IT confess to a distrust of instruction in Citizenship. As far as I have 
seen, it means instruction in ideas of things as they are, not as I think as they 
might be for new needs. 
‘T also have doubts about ‘‘Boy’’ government. It may mean government 
on the old ideals, but I have not a great knowledge of the working, except 
that I believe Committees of boys assess and give punishments and maintain 
order and so on. But these things may all be wrong, and no punishments needed. 
“Boys are useful in Boarding Houses, and give punishments for trivial 
offences, and save the master much trouble, and one good thing is that the boys 
who are punished do not feel any disgrace. 
