, 1911-09-09

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the Mother Country and America.
i. Danish. The subject must be taken
up in all the schools. At present instruction
in Danish is given in the town schools only,
but as these at all times of the year get pu-
pills from the country schools, the Danish
teacher often has to instruct ut the same
time very different groups, and frequently
the pupils from the country schools, to
whom he has with great difficulty impaired
the first elements, go back after a short time
to the country schools again. Under pre-
sent conditions, therefore, the instruction in
Danish gives only poor results.
First when bodily work is taken up in the
schools will there be a hope for making he
pupils able and fit for practical life. No
where is the need of it greater than here;
it is therefore to be regretted that the eco
nomical conditions will not allow of these
subjects being introduced at once, but COM
pei US, in the School Ordinance, to leave Il
place open for them. Still, the prospect is
hopeful of being able, in the not too distant
futute, to introduce instruction in "SlQjd"
into the town schools.
adj s 10.
1t viii be possible to make the proposed
class division with hardly any increase in
the expenditure; il will only require the APP
p|ointment Of Il female teacher for the half
day IN Frederik5ted, when boys and girls
are taught together, as in all the private
schools of the island and in the country
schools, aud will have the important adyau-
tago for the instruction, that all the pupils
in one class will be at the same standpoint,
whereas at present each class includes seve-
raj distinct groups.
A necessary condition Cor better results
than are now reached IN the instruction IN
religious knowledge and other orally taught
subjects in the country schools, where all the
pupils (from 6 to IA years of a9e) are taught
together, for example in Bible History, is
u real division into classes, which viii be
possible when The school building is divided
into separate class rooms.
The expense Of erecting the partitions to
be put up in the country schools for the
above mentioned purpose is estimated by
the Building Inspector at a total OF Frca.
1925. 90 (S725.0O
al S 20.
The teaching in the schools has hitherto
had only in IL small degree any educating
influence on the pupils, since not much has
been attained beyond a mechanical mastery
of certain requirements. The lie which IS
led by the greater part of the islands adult
population ~testifies to the little practical sig
nifcance which the teaching in The schools
has had. Ii the rising generation is to adj
vance any farther with the help of the
schools, it IS not sufficient to Introduce into
the school bodily work, to give a more IA
tional and more practical instruction in read
ing, arithmetic, writing and nature know
ledge, but it depends also on influencing the
children in another way, showing them
ideals, giving them the desire to strive for
the realization Of these ideals, teaching them
how they ought to conduct their lives, and
such an influence, however much importance
the teaching Of history, for example, may
have in this regard, can here only be fully
exerted through a good and lively instruc-
tlon in religious knowledge, suited to the
pupils Of various ages. But br this means,
although it will take TIM, much time, there
will c|ertqinly be attained much, an that
without regard to the question rs to the
church to which the children belong.
But such q teaching, stamped with the
personality of the teachers and their own
views of life, cannot b given to the emil
dren belonging to all the different church
es in common, and it will therefore be a
necessary condition, that for the religious
teaching the children should be iyided,
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