"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. "Such a plea is in no way foreign to the spirit of American public education, or to existing practices. Nor is it a plea for a temporary enlargement of the school programme appropriate merely to the period of the war. It is a plea for a realization in public education of the new emphasis which the war has given to the ideals of democracy and to the broader conceptions of national life." Morden Missen |