Educ. COPYRIGHT, 1914, 1918, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED AIMBORLIAD The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION DURING the four years since the first edition of this book was printed, the world has been moved, shaken, recreated. The war began with indignation against the invasion of an innocent nation. That indignation has ignited the world. In its flame lesser issues have turned to ashes. Precious ideals emerge purified and new-seen, purged of formalism, stripped of convention. Chivalry to the weak, liberty of choice, self-government, membership with one another, self-sacrifice, truth to one's pledges, we cannot use these phrases any longer without seeing Armenia, Belgium, Poland, Alsace-Lorraine. This Course in Citizenship and Patriotism, published in 1913, was an expression of the belief of a group of teachers and school officers of varied experience that citizenship, chivalry, good will, honor, and firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, not only could but must be taught if our nation was to survive. The new edition has been changed to meet the changes in spiritual experiences of these enlightening years. It is, we believe, in full conformity with the spirit of President Wilson's message to School Officers, a message that has the sanction of a command. "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." The Course in Citizenship deals at the outset with 400967 simple problems of home and neighborhood community life, as they touch and mould little children; it goes on in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades to civic and national problems; in the seventh and eighth grades it enlarges the outlook to that of international ties and duties, those ties and those duties of which the United States can never again be unmindful. That such a study is of value is almost self-evident. Soldiers must win the war, but it is largely parents and teachers who must make the war worth winning. The precious generation of children whose fathers and mothers have borne the sacrifice, they it is who must see to it that these dead have not died in vain. ELLA LYMAN CABOT, Editor. MABEL HILL, MARY MCSKIMMON. |