Show GOOD CITIZEN CI free schools can safeguard democracy by teaching truth till ahli Is ij the be eighth of n wl ert of 1 10 article ar it f rom tb booklet good citi son en published pub d br b 11 lle 1 left cairo foundation natio the tha rights rubt and dutle duties of at an n Arne american ritan j the seventh promise of a good citizen I 1 will support our system of of free public education by doing everything I 1 can to improve the schools in my own community many iams isms and ideologies are being peddled and sold around the world today most ot of them dismiss ignore and brush lightly aside the inalien able rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness it fortunate that wo we have at hand a system of education which can give to our boys and girls 7 the knowledge and ability to separate the true from the halt half true to look isms iams 1 straight in the eye the oming coming generation with minds and hearts reinforced with such knowledge Is more powerful than an army our public school our private schools and our schools conducted under religious auspices all must provide the climate and the soil for the roots and the fruits of freedom so good citizen keep our system of education strong THE SCHOOLS are yours you pay for them there is rn much ch that you can do to improve them and the need is urgent teachers enjoy or ought to enjoy freedom from social and political pressures fre freedom to seek the eternal truths and to present these truths in a way that will stimulate young minds to look for truth indi and be lible able to recognize it when they fin find d it teachers should be proud of their profession they deserve the friendliness sociability and respect accorded to doctors lawyers and members of other professions teachers should be able to live their private lives as any other self respecting citizen lives his neither pla playing ying mrs grundy to the community nor being dictated to by the social arbiters of the community whoever they may be help to make your schools a force for national unity by protecting our children from bigotry and prejudice it has been said america fears no enemy but ignorance the generation which did not fight the wat war is trying to understand what happened why it happened and what can be done to straighten out the world help it to find out through even better stronger freer schools which bring to it the distilled truth wrested from the experience of all recorded time which encourage the search for truth and which foster the undeveloped talents which are Ainey americas leals greatest source of 0 wealth MARK TWAIN referring to a foreign dispatch once said the vast expense of maintaining the army has made it necessary to retrench and so the government had decided that to support the army it would be necessary to withdraw the appropriation from t the h a public schools it is curious to reflect how history repeats itself the world over why I 1 remember the same thing was done when I 1 was a boy on the mississippi river there was a proposition ionin ta a township there to discontinue public schools because they were were too expensive an old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built its like feeding a dog own wn tall hell never get lat fat I 1 believe it is better to support schools than jails this article li Is chapter 1 7 of et the th booklet good citizen produced by bi the american heritage pons re of the freedom train A 00 complete book boak may b be e obtained by sending 23 25 ce cents is majo la T the h american heritage roun foundation dation aib street new mw york N S T |