A very important conference opens at Toronto on Easter Monday,
when the National Council of Education meets to discuss "Education and Citizenship" for a week. Leading educationists from all parts of Canada are taking part in the proceedings, and there will be several British delegates, including Sir Michael Sadler, Sir Henry Newbolt and Sir Robert Baden-Powell. The Conference seeks (1) to emphasize the necessity of a greater degree of ideality and spirituality in education since persistence in our present competitive and• secular methods must lead to Western civilization eventually destroying itself; (2) to stimulate a Dominion-wide interest in education as a means to life and not for the purpose of livelihood, to demonstrate the need for a re-statement of values and to seek the removal of the emphasis now placed on the material aspects of life to the almost complete neglect of the spiritual ; (3) to endow the ideas " education " and " citizenship " with a unity of meaning and purpose for the nation, and to impress in the hearts and minds of the people the ideal of a fulness of life attainable by all.
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