{"product_id":"2940012828187","title":"TEACHING THE CHILD PATRIOTISM","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                                                 PAGE\u003cbr\u003e     I THE APPEAL TO HISTORY                                 1\u003cbr\u003e    II THE PATRIOTISM OF PEACE                              22\u003cbr\u003e   III PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN POLITICS                  42\u003cbr\u003e    IV TEACHING THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY                    61\u003cbr\u003e     V SACRIFICING FOR PATRIOTISM                           76\u003cbr\u003e    VI PATRIOTISM AND HEALTH                                93\u003cbr\u003e   VII WORK AS A VITAL PART OF PATRIOTISM                  111\u003cbr\u003e  VIII A PATRIOT'S MANNERS AND MORALS                      130\u003cbr\u003e    IX THE PATRIOT'S RELIGION AND IDEALS                   147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTEACHING THE CHILD PATRIOTISM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE APPEAL TO HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Let us suppose for a moment that any set of men could\u003cbr\u003e      succeed in sweeping away from them all the influences\u003cbr\u003e      of past ages. Suppose a race of men whose minds had\u003cbr\u003e      been suddenly deadened to every recollection--can we\u003cbr\u003e      imagine a condition of such utter confusion and\u003cbr\u003e      misery?--FREDERIC HARRISON.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWE have been lately told by one of our foremost educators that \"the\u003cbr\u003ebest schools are expressly renouncing the questionable duty of teaching\u003cbr\u003epatriotism by means of history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo some of us who have brought up children, this startling statement\u003cbr\u003ecame like a bomb. If history is to be used, as it certainly is used, in\u003cbr\u003emany of our \"best schools,\" in the teaching of political economy,\u003cbr\u003esociology, philosophy, psychology, biology, religion and nearly\u003cbr\u003eeverything else, why should we not use it also in teaching a child the\u003cbr\u003evalue of his own country, how dearly it has been bought, and his duty to\u003cbr\u003eserve it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen anybody undertakes to prove that a child who hears, for instance\u003cbr\u003ethe story of the six \"leading citizens\" of Calais offering their lives\u003cbr\u003efor the redemption of their city, does not feel a deeper sense of\u003cbr\u003epatriotism after it, he must prove that the children whom most of us\u003cbr\u003eknow are exceptional.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSee the widening eyes and working features of children listening to a\u003cbr\u003espirited reading of \"Horatius at the Bridge,\" or \"Hervé Riel,\" or the\u003cbr\u003estory of Nathan Hale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYour \"educator\" may say that all this means merely an \"emotional spasm.\"\u003cbr\u003eWhat is that but interest or enthusiasm? And what is more potent in\u003cbr\u003emoving the will?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of our intelligent mothers can testify that there seems to be\u003cbr\u003enothing which more rouses a child's loving consciousness of his own\u003cbr\u003eland, and more enkindles a desire to do something for it,--even to die\u003cbr\u003efor it--than listening to these fiery old tales of exalted patriotism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an eloquent panegyric upon the influence of a knowledge of history,\u003cbr\u003ePresident Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College says: \"It is a circumscribed\u003cbr\u003elife which has no vision into the past, which is familiar only with\u003cbr\u003epresent conditions and forms of government, manners, customs and\u003cbr\u003ebeliefs. Such a life has no background, no material for comparisons, no\u003cbr\u003eopportunity to learn from the mistakes of others, nor from their\u003cbr\u003eachievements.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd, in re-inforcement of the contention that much besides general\u003cbr\u003eculture and useful information is gained from the study of the past, and\u003cbr\u003eespecially from the study of the classics, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge\u003cbr\u003eduring a recent session of the New York Latin Club uttered a strong plea\u003cbr\u003efor the study of Latin and Greek, as an incentive to patriotism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is impossible,\" he said, in effect, \"to read of 'the brave days of\u003cbr\u003eold,' of Marathon and Salamis, of Martius Curtius, Lycurgus and a\u003cbr\u003ehundred others of the heroes of Greece and Rome, without a sense of the\u003cbr\u003eglory of living and dying for one's country. All children should be made\u003cbr\u003efamiliar with them, and especially with the ringing lines and sound\u003cbr\u003epatriotism of the Iliad. They not only teach patriotism, but many of the\u003cbr\u003eother higher virtues, and in such an interesting way that children want\u003cbr\u003eto hear the stories over and over. Thus their lessons become indelibly\u003cbr\u003eimpressed upon young minds.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut one of the hard truths which should be taught in connection with\u003cbr\u003ethese tales of heroism, is the fact that by far the greater number of\u003cbr\u003esplendid sacrifices for one's country are never heard of. Cincinnatus,\u003cbr\u003eHector, Ajax, Pheidippides, have come to fame, which is generally\u003cbr\u003econsidered reward enough for any hardship; but most of the world's\u003cbr\u003eheroes are unknown or forgotten. Every soldier can relate courageous\u003cbr\u003edeeds which he has witnessed but which live only in his memory or in\u003cbr\u003ethose of his comrades. In fact, we are told that heroism is so common in\u003cbr\u003ethe present war that almost every soldier deserves a medal.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069607493872,"sku":"2940012828187","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012828187_p0.jpg?v=1763573130","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012828187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}