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This week has been set aside as Education Week; teachers are urged to impress upon their pupils minds the undesirability of certain kinds of citizens. The bogy of the constitution-destroyer is to be popped out before the terrified school-children. The were-wolf of radicalism will be made to howl again across the barren steppes of the American desert. The generation at school will learn by rote that the penalty of thinking further or faster than their sainted ancestors is "death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, and anarchy." George Washington, himself a radical and revolutionist, will be summoned from...
...article in a current number of "Good Housekeeping", one William J. Shepherd, who is an author and a journalist, undertakes to show that over one half of America's future citizens now receiving training in the public schools "will, under temptation, have an unethical outlook on life." Scores of school-children, according to Mr. Shephard, assented to such statements as "Cheating a railroad is not so much a sin as cheat a person," and "If a storekeeper gives you too much change, it is all right to keep it, because he would probably do the same if you paid...
Dante, among the great figures of literature, is probably the least familiar. The material of Homer is known to most school-children; Virgil is still part of the nominal diet in preparation for college; Milton, too, is taught in the schools. But Dante, neither ancient nor modern, falls between...
Speaking on "The Responsibilities of School Committees," Mr. Storrow said that the School Committee should fight for the interests of the school-children rather than for those of the individual. For the benefit of the children, and for the purpose of saving the city's money, the School Committee has established promotional tests, which new teachers must pass before an advancement...
...dresses with which Happie chances to be passing. The buccaneer now retires, after which Hazelle and Richarde enter and sing a duet about a scare-crow. Richarde now goes in search of Historicus, but returns with him just after the departure of Hazelle. Portentous has some trouble with the school-children who rebel and depart with Richarde and Historicus. Upon this, Portentous arrests Hazelle as a witch, but she escapes and the pirate is imprisoned by accident...