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Says Personal ElementIs Key in PeacemakingWashington Woman Claims Violence Terms Often Used in ConversationContinued reminders of the, , , . , be done by the league in eduea-personal element in peacemak- . . _ ., _ . . turn were given by Mrs. Manemg is one of the most impor- r ', . 4 , * 4. , Lyons, Newton Center, Mass.,tant parts of education for . , . . . ,* , ^ .... „ who cited a project in her ownpeaceful attitudes, Mxss Bertha .. ... , , ,,•*- . . . « „ community which explored theMcNeil!, Washington, D. C., co- . ... , .„ , , . , causes of prejudice in schoolordinator of the educational dx- , . . ... _ , T. . children, and Miss Euola Lentz,vision of the Women s Interna- T ,, _ „ , St. Louis, a second grade teach-tional League for Peace and . , . .. ._ . * , ^ ,ei\ who suggested that mothers;Freedom, declared Sunday. ’ ... ... . ... . . . n_ _ ..... , talk to their children s teachersMiss McNeill keynoted a sym- , . .posium on peace education at about teachl”S »eac*-Colman hall as part of the PTA Chairmenleague’s annual convention. , Other proposals of leagueIIvcG“Personal elements,’' she m embers were working?en. eVen- °n 11 school boards and adultconversational level, as in use- .of expressions of violence like .education committees, sending “fighting mad” and “blood,league literature to teachers, sweat and tears,” which indi- and appointing chairmen of in-cate the extent to which people1 ternational w o rk for PTA . are used to violence. i groups on the local and state,JExamples of what work can levels.------- i Mrs. Lyons, in a report aboutthe plan in which she took part, ysaid findings showed national and cultural differences in attitude and a high correlation be-! tween punishment • of aggression in children and the individual’s attitude toward himself and the world.Miss Lentz said the situation tin education is ‘regrettable be-1 cause schools don’t teach \ world - mindedness per se.” j This world-mindedness should ( be a part of every teacher's ‘ ; training, she said. A■ Research on peace and edu- 1 I cation has shown that there is ■ more success when children t- work together on common in- 1 terests than when they work: on the actual problem on inte- 1 ; gration. (; She suggested an education j l committee might look for suc-- cessful inter-group studies and 1 distribute information about *■{ them. |l» War Games Stopped J 1 Mrs. Hedwig Beh, secretary ■- of the Swedish section, told of J i her work in the nursery school 1which she directs. Working ■lt; j with the personal elements in jf the lives of the children, she , j tries to see that none of them , have toy guns and planes and 1 ..tries to stop their playing war , i games. Prevalence of toy .‘weapons, she said, makes ehil-. dren take war for granted.The part which one individu- ! . al can play in control of per- ■ , sonal elements was illustrated , by Mrs. Mary N'uttal. a league ] » member in Britain, who wrote 1 to an American cereal compa- , 1 ny objecting to its advertising , ^ a toy gun on its packages. j I She received a reply from the ' 5 managing director of the com- ' pany. she said, and the next offer on the cereal box was for ! musical instruments. ,'
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Appleton Post Crescent
Appleton, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Jun 23, 1958
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