Ella Lyman Cabot
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 422
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Excerpt from A Course in Citizenship and Patriotism During the four years since the first edition of this book was printed, the world has been moved, shaken, recreated. The war began with indignation against the invasion of an innocent nation. That indignation has ignited the world. In its flame lesser issues have turned to ashes. Precious ideals emerge purified and new-seen, purged of formalism, stripped of convention. Chivalry to the weak, liberty of choice, self-government, membership with one another, self-sacrifice, truth to ones pledges, - we cannot use these phrases any longer without seeing Armenia, Belgium, Poland, Alsace-Lorraine. This Course in Citizenship and Patriotism, published in 1913, was an expression of the belief of a group of teachers and school officers of varied experience that citizenship, chivalry, good will, honor, and firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, not only could but must be taught if our nation was to survive. The new edition has been changed to meet the changes in spiritual experiences of these enlightening years. It is, we believe, in full conformity with the spirit of President Wilson's message to School Officers, a message that has the sanction of a command. "I urge that teachers and other school officers increase materially the time and attention devoted to instruction bearing directly on the problems of community and national life." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.