Excerpt from Community Civics
Schools are the laboratory for our democracy. People have a right to expect that our public schools should train their children for good citizenship. To be a good citizen means, first of all, to be willing and able to take part intelligently in the affairs of one"s own community. To train such citizens, civics must be taught to children in the terms of their own lives. It must be real. It must connect with the affairs with which they are familiar in their town or neighborhood.
That is why this book on Community Civics has been written. It brings to boys and girls in the country, - to those who are away from cities, to those who are living in towns that are the center of country interests, and to those living on farms, - at the time when they are forming their civic ideals, the problems that are being met in their own communities.
When these boys and girls see their part in making their community life all it can be, they will not be satisfied with poor roads, a low rate of production per acre, a school that is inefficient, or a lack of community cooperation. Nothing else will so surely bring to them an appreciation of the opportunities of the country and a desire to invest their lives as citizens of such communities.
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