Excerpt from The War and America, War Citizenship Lessons
For our schools the present crisis brings new opportunities and added responsibilities. Few of our high school students are old enough to fight for Uncle Sam at the front; but if all understand the need, very few indeed will shirk any patriotic duty, however small, that arises. The first year of the war brought to our schools a new earnestness, a greater loyalty, a more complete consecration than we had ever known. Many of our failures have been due to ignorance and inexperience, but we are learning. That we may learn faster, that we may learn better, that we help more, is our first need and our greatest desire.
The primary purpose of these patriotic lessons is not information but action. Since the schools are preeminently that branch of our social organization which works through information to knowledge, and through knowledge to character and potential efficiency, it is necessary that the lessons consider causes briefly and that they inquire a little into the nature of the problems to be considered. It is hoped that they may give some insight into war needs and help to develop a "war conscience" that is sensitive to personal obligations. Their appeal is to the individual, to know the right way, and to avoid little blunders, of which we are usually unconscious, which indirectly help the enemy. They aim to show also that patriotism is more than a matter of individual comprehension; that it calls for cooperation of small groups such as classes and of large groups such as schools.
The topics of these War Citizenship Lessons include some of those used originally by the writer in his own classes. When the complete list was shown to Mr. Walter C. Wilson, Principal of the Pasadena High School, he suggested that they be prepared in written form and presented to other students.
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