§ 31. Sir J. Graham Kerrasked the President of the Board of Education, in view of the fact that a large proportion of road accidents are due to a want of alertness in observation by eye and ear, whether he will secure that all schoolchildren shall receive adequate training of their powers of observation instead of being encouraged to rely on the principle of Safety First.
§ Mr. EdeIt was pointed out in the report on road safety among school children, a copy of which is possessed by every school, that alertness is a quality which is important for all children on general grounds; its development is one of the normal functions of the school and training in road safety would find its place naturally in the curriculum as part of this wider training. I have no doubt that this aspect is not neglected in the work which the schools generally are doing for the promotion of the safety of children on the roads.