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Moral instruction and training in schools
Moral instruction and training in schools Author:Michael Sadler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LISTS OF TOPICS CIRCULATED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO INDICATE THE SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY. I. Elementary And Higher Elementary Schools. Observations, ... more »based on personal experience, of methods and results of moral instruction and training, in elementary and higher elementary schools, of boys and girls respectively, were invited on the following points, but the list was not intended to be exhaustive:— (i) The comparative ethical value of different school studies, (ii) How far, under existing conditions, are systematic moral instruction and training given to the pupils, through the religious lessons or otherwise ? (iii) Do you think that, in addition to the influence exerted on the pupils by the tone of the school, by the organisation of its work and play, and by the personality of the teachers, more should be done to provide systematic moral instruction and training as part of education ? If so, should it be, (a) though systematic in plan, almost entirely indirect in method, e.g., given through the teaching of literature and history; or (6) arranged as part of the definite religious teaching of the school; or (c) planned in the form of regular lessons making a graded course of moral instruction on non-theological lines; or is some combination of these methods the more efficacious ? (iv) How far do the schools succeed in cultivating a sense of civic responsibility and of duty to the State ? Have you had experience of direct attempts to teach patriotism ? (v) How far, under present systems of administration, is each school tree to develop a corporate life of its own and so to organise its work as to develop among the pupils a sense of personal responsibility? (vi) Advantages and disadvantages of co-education of boys and girls in elementary and h...« less