London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
FIRE DRILL FOR THE YOUNGSTERS.
And here it may be asked, why should not fire drill be taught at every school in the kingdom? Not only at the public schools but the board schools, and even at the infant schools. Children cannot commence too early to learn how to do a thing, and this is a matter of very great importance. And I would not make a distinction between the sexes. Why should not girls learn as well as boys? In a fire everyone should be of use, and if a girl is not strong enough to carry a bucket or draw along hose, she can at any rate learn to make herself valuable as a messenger or a signaller. Of course it is immensely important that there should be discipline, and fire drill like all other drills conduces to discipline. So even from this point of view it would be a most valuable institution. | |