| Description | Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury states that the aim of this paper was 'to show how Education may help to raise the Moral Standard.' Promoting the work of continuation schools, Taylor Cadbury expresses concern about the young age at which children left school to enter employment. Her paper provides an overview of the curriculum offered at continuation schools and includes extracts from 'The Young Industrial Worker' and 'Girls' Club News' supporting the work undertaken by the schools to ensure the continued development of children into adulthood. Taylor Cadbury argues that continued education should be made compulsory and emphasises the practical value of the lessons offered at the schools which included physical training and hygiene lessons. She describes how continuation schools offered not only traditional academic subjects but served to foster 'public spirit' through lectures on citizenship and vocational visits. She also remarks on the effective relationships established between teachers and students. Taylor Cadbury concludes her paper by appealing directly for a 'National system of Part Time Secondary Education.'
An additional annotated typescript entitled 'The Application of the Moral Ideal to Education' is attached to this paper, reiterating many of its ideas, statistics and arguments. |