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Show TEACHING AMERICANISM At the convention of the National Education Association, it is reported, a proposal that geography, history and literature be taught from a world point of view rather than a nationalist was postponed by a vote of 40 to 2. The text of the resolution and the debate thereon are not at hand, but the subject is interesting. We often wonder how much influence the public schools are exerting directly for the creation of an intelligent nationalism and how much the teaching body, largely feminine, is infected with pacificism and internationalism. inter-nationalism. So far as our experience and knowledge does instruction instruc-tion in American principles and institutions is rather perfunctory. We do not read of any resolution to invigorate or improve the teaching of fundamental Americanism. There are a good many sentimentalists in our country today who seem to think it is our duty to prefer every country to our own. But they are out of place in the schools. Chicago Tribune. |