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THE LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE.
An Important
Message to the Chief Citizens and Principal Industrial Concerns of the Empire.
T
BY
FREDERIC ERNEST CATLING.
HE conclusion of the European War brings the British Empire face to face with numerous problems, yet none, I venture to assert, in any way approach the importance of the one which the League of the Empire has set out seriously to solve. I refer to the task of broadening the mind and intellect of the teaching community throughout the Empire by means of intelligent intercourse of the scholastic fraternity all the world over, and thus placing its members in the position of being able to instil into the minds of the rising generation in their charge all that is ennobling from an Imperial point of view.
The League of the Empire, which was founded in the year 1901, is, for the most part, an Educational Movement, and its labours have already received the sanction of the educational authorities and Governments throughout the British Empire. Its one object is to improve and mould Imperially, as it were, the mind of the scholar by inaugurating a policy which will materially assist the teacher.
Travel as
an integral part of education has always been a portion of the English educational tradition, but in the past-and it is a regrettable fact-there have been no means available whereby the school teacher might, through travel facilities and intercourse with his confreres beyond seas, arm his scholastic mind against pettiness and parochialism.
Our Imperial scholastic facilities have been advanced considerably during the last decade or so, and the advent of free education has obviously been of inestimable advantage to the multitudes of those young minds in our midst. Yet while this phase of the educational movement has been pushed forward with commendable zeal, it is a surprising and regrettable fact that the members of the teaching profession have not had opportunities placed within their reach which would enable them to familiarise themselves with matters Imperial.
1 have no desire to labour the point unduly, but it appears to me that if the minds of our hundreds of thousands of scholars are to be trained aright, and in a manner which befits coming citizens of the Empire, then a vitally important work lies before the League and every citizen.
The scholars of to-day-no matter in which school they may be receiving their education are the houlders of the mind of the Empire in the next decade, and a most serious responsibility rests upon the Empire at the moment to see that not the slightest opportunity is neglected of guiding the coming citizens so that they may think and act Imperially. It is the aim and object of the League of the Empire to take up with even greater hope than hitherto the endless and inspiring tabours of Imperial education.
Its first desire is to establish an Imperial Centre in London, of which all teachers in the Universities, igher grade, secondary and elementary Schools shall be members. It will be the club-house of the scholastic world, and here will be held from time to time those Imperial Conferences of Teachers, the first of which pok place under the auspices of the League eight years ago. The influence of this Educational Centre will adiate to the corners of the British Empire, and educational missions from local authorities to various parts of the Empire, and an exchange of teachers between schools which are far distant, will form an integral part of its policy.
Obviously such aims cannot materialise without the unstinted support of those large industrial firms and private individuals who recognise the potentialities of the proposals, and the League of the Empire desires to secure a sum of not less than £50,000 for the purpose of establishing and equipping such an Educational Centre in London.
It is with this object in view that this Appeal is sent you, and so convinced am I that the import- ace of the proposal warrants all possible assistance and support, that I have personally arranged to defray all
penses in this connection until the desired sum is secured.
During the past few years [ am aware that you have liberally subscribed to various organisations, but I am confident that none can be of greater importance than that for which I now ask your wholehearted
pport. Let us make the future of the British Empire doubly safe.
Williams, Lea & Co., Ltd., Worship Street London, k,C. »
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