SIGHT-SEEING IN SCHOOL 



Taking Twenty Million Children on a Picture Tour 



of the World 



By Jessie L. Burrall 



Chiee of School Service of the National Geographic Society 



NO FACTOR of American life af- 

 fects us as a people more vitally 

 than does the public school. It 

 takes care of our boys and girls during 

 more than half of their waking hours for 

 nine or ten months every year. It molds 

 their habits of body and mind for life. 



How many are there of these boys and 

 girls in our schools today? More than 

 twenty million — enough to fill four mag- 

 nificent cities the size of our great New 

 York, or eight the size of our energetic 

 Chicago. 



The armies of war disband, but these 

 children continue to come on and on, 

 wave after wave, year after year, a mighty 

 army mobilized for service and for life. 

 Let us visualize them as marching some 

 fine morning four abreast across the con- 

 tinent from the Golden Gate, and see how 

 long the line will be. 



Here they advance, across the Sierra 

 Nevada and the Great Basin, between the 

 snow-covered peaks of the Rockies, down 

 across the Great Plains — marching stead- 

 ily on — crossing the Mississippi, passing 



'THIS IS THE WAY WE GO TO SCHOOL 



Photograph by M. O. Williams 

 IN CHIXA 



Every hour of the 24 sounds the call of the schools to hosts of girls and boys somewhere on 



the globe. 



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