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my presence, 'and I wish the schools 

 would give a better education in citizenship. 

 Waving the Stars and Stripes isn't all of it/ 



A teacher wrote me as follows : ' Your 

 observations concerning a child's education 

 in history seem to hit the mark exactly. 

 About all an ordinary child knows, when he 

 first begins to study history in the eighth 

 grade, is that George Washington was the 

 father of his country, and that it is his own 

 bounden duty as a future citizen of the 

 United States to hate England and love 

 America with all his heart and soul. The 

 last clause is all right, but I think that the 

 commandment to love our neighbours is as 

 essential to national harmony in national 

 affairs as it is to individual harmony in 

 private affairs.' 



The influential journal and the newspaper 

 in this country is the god of the superficially 

 educated, or demi-semi-educated, majority 

 exerts probably more influence when it holds 

 the Jingo up to ridicule than when it contents 

 itself with simply scolding him. One of the 

 best of these journalistic anecdotes deals with 

 a bristling warrior who presented himself at 



