Points From Publications
| Date | 01 January 1947 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054700500712 |
| Published date | 01 January 1947 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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POINTS FROM PUBLICATIONS
and it is doubtful whether an adapted Senior School
building constructed thirty or forty years ago is going to
We have received at Headquarters copies of two
provide the kind of accommodation required for modern
_interesting journals-&dquo; Public Service and Administra-
educational purposes.
tion &dquo; and &dquo; The Child’s Friend.&dquo; The first, dated October,
Appreciating therefore all of the difhculties and snags
1946, is a first issue of &dquo; an independent monthly journal
which confronts the educationist so far as teachers and
.of progress and development &dquo;, whose editorial policy is,
buildings are concerned, does the educationist yet know
inter alia &dquo; to seek to link still more closely those who
the path along which he intends to tread? The present
legislate and those who administer &dquo;.
distinction as between the Senior-or Modern Secondary
The second is the 16th Annual Report (1945) of the
School- and the Grammar or County School is obvious.
Child Protection Society of Ceylon (incorporated) whose
How are we to get rid of it? We are told that the answer
.objects and activities include prevention of cruelty to and
is to be found in the Multilateral or Comprehensive
neglect of children and the &dquo;stimulation of public opinion
School. As explained to the ordinary parent these appear
towards making the community increasingly sensitive to
to be a variation of the American type of school (not
forms of existing abuse of which the evil results are not
necessarily as represented by the films, one hopes!) and
fully appreciated.&dquo;
do at least have the merit of taking &dquo; streams &dquo; of all
types of children, of varied abilities and aptitudes, and
An extract from each is given without comment :-
in the course of time separating them in a single school
(not necessarily the same building) into the educational
From &dquo;Public Service and Administration&dquo;: Educational
direction in which they...
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