Printed for the use of the Colonial Office, &c.
Miscellaneous
No. 172.
MEMORANDUM.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
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9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
LANTERN LECTURES ON THE UNITED KINGDOM FOR USE IN THE COLONIES.
The object of giving to the school children of the United Kingdom better knowledge of the Colonies, and of giving to the school children of each Colony better knowledge of the United Kingdom and of other parts of the Empire, has been brought into prominence by various organizations and commended itself to Mr. Chamberlain when Secretary of State for the Colonies and to Mr. Lyttelton, the present Secretary of State.
With their approval a small Committee has been formed to carry out a suggestion made in the first instance to the Colonial Office by Mr. M. E. Sadler while at the Board of Educa- tion, that very first-rate lessons or lectures, to be illustrated by equally good lantern slides should, on the lines which have been success- fully followed out in the United States, be drawn up and used in the Schools of the Empire.
The Committee thought that it would be well to begin on a small scale and in a very modest way, but bearing constantly in mind that, if the experiment is to succeed, the letterpress and the illustrations must be the best possible.
Accordingly, acting under the Secretary of State's authority, they drew up a syllabus of seven lectures on the United Kingdom, each to be illustrated by some forty lantern slides, the subjects of the lectures being
(1) The journey trom the East to London. (2) London the Imperial City.
(3) Scenery of the United Kingdom. (4) Historic centres and their influence
on national life.
(5) Country life and the smaller towns. (6) Great towns, the Industries, and
Commerce.
(7) Defences of the Empire.
This syllabus, designed for use primarily in the Eastern Colonies, was sent out to the Governments of the three Colonies of Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hongkong, and
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