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appear to be impressed with the absurdity 

 of her own suggestion, but simply with the 

 airs of the applicant for employment. 



Normal schools for teachers abound, and 

 yet, excellent as many of these are, the 

 ignorant instructors of youth are as thick as 

 blackberries upon the roadside bush. Politics, 

 interest Heaven knows what not all lend 

 their quota to the trouble. Education by all 

 means, but let it be the right kind, applied in 

 the right manner in the right places. 



In an admirable article published recently 

 in New York, attention was drawn to 

 another crying evil calling for reform 

 namely, the education in Jingoism given by 

 the public schools. American history is 

 taught with a Jingo bias, and, to quote from 

 the article, ' The one thing needful, the sine 

 qua non of American citizenship, without 

 which a republic constituted as is ours is 

 hopeless, is not taught at all ; and that is 

 political science, science of government, or 

 political economy, or whatever you choose to 

 call it.' ' Every word of that article is true ' 

 (and there was a great deal more in the same 

 strain), commented a public-school youth in 



