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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 26,

1988.

How To Enjoy Life Will Be

Taught Soon In Every School

GIRLS LEARN

TO RUN HOME

Ono extra year on the school life of State-educated children is probably going to cause an entire revision in the curriculum of the child's last four school years.

All over the country teachers and education authori- ties are studying, scheming and working for the time when the new Education Act comes into force next year and children will remain at school until they are fifteen."

Some schools encourage the chl-i

The extra year will not mean mere-i ly an extra bit of knowledge of dren #eography, history, and arithmetic.

tu form societies-debating, photographic. drama, history, any-

It will menn a general widening of thing that will stimulate them men-

the whole scape of elementary educa-tally and souilly and give them the

In

the age of eloven.

The Extra Yenr, # report, imited recently by the Joint Commit- Lee of

of Investigation representing the Association of Education Committees of the National Union of Teachers, it ta made plain that the policy of cle- education wilt mentary school approach nearer to that of the public #chools.

It will aim at equipping the child for the intelligent enjoyment of life and for citizenship more than for dmple wage-carning.

CITIZEN DUTIES

That one extra year will mean, it is belloved that the child who leaves school will want to go on studying) afterwards, and will know how to set about it.

beginnings of a "background,"

Most schools teach the wild some- thing of his privileges und duties as a citizen.

At Willesden the boys form a Par Hument, with state opening, a king's speech, a debate on the address and a Cubinet.

They have a model town counell, too, chosen by an election, and the members of it learn in practice howi to conduct meetings and committees.

Much greater importance will be be called Elven to what used to starkly "dril," and is now called "physical education."

It will include games, exercises, dancing, and, where possible, will be linked up with blology and hygiene.

Giris arc to be grounded in housewlery. in

As Investigation by the committee in seventeen educational areas which the school-leaving

agt

It is likely that many schools will

already fifteen by by-law, rovented follow the example of Mansfeld and: that many Interesting experiments] Willesden, where for n part of their are being made.

Bradford's modern schools, for instance, allow pupils to choose tieir own subjects and occupations on Friday afternoons.

General Francisco Franco, commander of the Insurgent foroes

In Spain, decorates an Italian soidler who distinguished himself in

the fighting. Shortly after this pleturo was taken, Premier Mussolini 18,000 of the Italian troops from service with the Insurgents.

of Italy announced that he was recalling Inst year girls spend all their school time in a flat, learning not only the manual work of running H, but the social graces of entertaining and deal- ing with tradesmen.

3 "WIVES” MEET AS MAN

A

IS GAOLED FOR BIGAMY

women

a, other two women. I feel very sorry for them Miss Brown is very up- I set. For myself I want to forget. hope to marry again."

shire, representing himself as widower, and lived with her until 1928. Then in 1931 at Pembroke, he went through a ceremony of marriage with Miss Constance Olivia Brown, of Penarth, in the name of William Wilcocks.

Miss Conway sald: "He had gone out of my life. I don't want to see him again. We were very happy for a time, but it faded."

"Six months I shall walt," Miss Brown declared. "I'll just try to think he is at sea and not in pri- son.

Justice Passing sentence,

A police officer sald Bushell told him that divorce proceedings were pending, and he hoped Inter to sex ile down with Miss Brown.

"There

is no bitterness between me and the two women he has de- Croom-Johnson said that there did ceived," Mrs. Bushell sold.

not appear to be any gross deceit about Bushell, an element which was encountered in such frequently cases.

Lancaster. thard labour for double bigamy.

in the In 1917, while a private wife and two other whom a man had "married" bigam-Army, Bushell married Miss Nora ously sat together in a waiting-room Hargreaves at Blackburn, and lived at the Assize Court here recently with her until 1019.

TO MARRY AGAIN In 1922 he went through a cere- while William Bushell, aged 41, a

"While inquiries were being mode reagoing engineer, a native of St. mony of marriage with Mias Mary Holens, was sentenced to six months' Ellen Conway, of Rishton, Lanca- for the divorce I found out about the

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