HOW NATURE STUDY SHOULD BE TAUGHT 95 



Nevertheless, patriotism should be cultivated, 

 should in every home be communicated to the 

 children, not casually, but by plan and forethought. 

 For too long our children got it as they did the 

 measles, caught it. 



" Now, in the schools, American history and 

 American institutions as serious and important 

 studies are beginning to have more, but not yet 

 adequate, attention. 



" The impulse of patriotism needs to be in- 

 structed, guided, brought to the wheel if it is to 

 do the everyday work of American politics." 



" Sentiment, yes, never too much ; but with it, 

 and out of it, a faithful discharge of prosy routine 

 of a citizen's duty. A readiness to go to the fields ? 

 Yes, and equally to the primaries and to the polls." 



That is patriotism in the elementary schools 

 from the natural standpoint, that is building the 

 citizen from the heart. That is beginning at the 

 right end. What a foundation on which to rear 

 the various superstructures required in the up- 

 building of a community ! 



Loves his mother, "Well I just love her." I 

 like that standpoint of loving his country, and the 

 same spirit in loving this wonderful and beautiful 

 world. 



