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From the archive 23 November 1951: Praise for Outward Bound schools

A party from the Outward Bound School at Aberdovey on a cross country hike, June 1949

18 June 1949: A celebration from the Outward Bound College at Aberdovey on a cross nation hike near Barmouth. Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Photos/Image Post




From our London Personnel


The Duke of Edinburgh to-day spoke of the schools of the Outward Bound Trust as providing the kind of pursuits which give young men and women a sense of achievement and journey. “It is individuals excitements one particular desires to create to get the place both of breaking the law or of possessing a war,” he extra. The Duke was speaking at a conference of regional authorities organised by the Nationwide Taking part in Fields Association at Caxton Hall. His feedback referred to a suggestion by a representative of the Manchester Parks Committee that to talk of the pleasure young children got in breaking in to premises may possibly be “glorifying” the offence.


Mr Basil Henriques spoke of his conviction that there was a connection in between the lack of open spaces and playing-fields and the amount of children coming prior to the juvenile courts. When crimes of violence had been reported in the newspapers the public was inclined to see the existing generation of youth as depraved. He favored to call them “deprived”. They had been handicapped like no other generation in historical past by having to invest what need to have been the happiest years of their lives in darkness and worry.


Many have been separated from their mothers and fathers throughout the war and denied the all-vital upbringing in their personal properties. The end result was a need for light, colour, excitement and entertaining, and to be compensated for the factors they missed when they were youthful.


Mr Henriques stated that conscription had been an unsettling effect because boys did not know how to fill the gap in between leaving college and joining the forces. They tended to believe that they may well as properly have a good time even though they could. “You must forgive me, as a Jew, saying I personally think the weakening of religious influence in the residence is another result in of juvenile delinquency,” Mr Henriques stated.


The broken house was a single of the best leads to of juvenile delinquency, and unhappiness among husband and wife meant insecurity for the kid. “I would say,” Mr Henriques extra, “that the property is broken when the mom goes out to function at instances when she is essential by her children at home.” If a mother was not at home when her youngster returned from school, it created him think that she did not care about him.


Mr Henriques also spoke critically about the setting in slums and in houses in which there was overcrowding. “Slums drive children into the street: they are bored, with absolutely nothing to do and they start to go incorrect.”




From the archive 23 November 1951: Praise for Outward Bound schools

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